BirdsCaribbean is excited to finally announce all of our Global Big Day 2021 photography winners and share some of the many awesome photos that were taken on Global Big Day! We already reported on the team and individual stats and awards – click here if you missed the results from our record-breaking day!

Thanks to everyone that participated, especially our team leaders and generous donors, Global Big Day 2021 was a huge success. We had a record number of teams participating (15). And thanks to a game-changing challenge grant from a member of the President’s Perch team, we were able to raised close to $20,000 for our new Caribean Motus Collaboration – so amazing! Congrats to all the winners – enjoy the photos and gallery below!!!

PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS

Best Bird Photo:  Rafy Rodriguez – Puerto Rican Tody

Second Best Bird Photo: Roberto Jovel — Cuban Sharp-shinned Hawk, Cuba

Third Best Bird Photo: Jerome Foster — Little Blue Heron, immature (molting), St. Lucia

Best Shorebird:  Julian Moore — Ruddy Turnstone, Barbados

Youngest GBDer:  (1) Joanne Gaymes – Maeson  Gaymes in St. Vincent; (2) Anneke Mace – Holly Mace birding in New Zealand

Best Smiles:  Andrew Dobson and teammates Patricia Zurita and Katrina-Dobson – UK

Best Selfie:  Maikel Cañizares – The Bee Hummers Cuban Dream team, Cuba

Most Beautiful Landscape:  Rafy Rodriguez

Urban Birds: Jerome Foster – Gray Kingbird on nest, St. Lucia

Life in the Wild:  (1) Jerome Foster – American Kestrels mating, St. Lucia; (2) John Kricher – Mute Swan parent banishing Canada Goose; (3) Joanne Gaymes – Black-faced Grassquit female collecting nesting material, St. Vincent

Sweetest Fluffiest Birds:  (1) John Kricher – Mute Swan cygnets; (2) Rafy Rodriguez – Green Heron immature

Enjoy this gallery of bird, people and scenery photos taken on Global Big Day by various team members in the Caribbean, US, UK, Costa Rica, Panama, Netherlands, and more!

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Semi-palmated Plovers in St. Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Glenroy Gaymes birding with son Maeson in the St Vincent Botanical Gardens (Joanne Gaymes)

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron juvenile in Canash, St. Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Beny Wilson with GBD birding group, including Rick Morales and Ivan Skildsen (Minister of Tourism) in Panama (Beny Wilson)

Jeff Gerbracht selfie, yes, it’s snowing again for GBD in Ithaca, NY.

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Barbados Bullfinch, endemic to Barbados. (Photo by Julian Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Cattle Egret portrait, St. Lucia (Jerome-Foster)

Wild Turkey Jaywalking on Plum-Island, Massachusetts (Lisa-Sorenson)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Double-crested and Neotropic Cormorants, Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge (John Thomlinson)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Red-billed Streamertail – endemic in Jamaica. (Photo by Claude Fletcher)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Yellow-Crowed Night-Heron in flight (Jerome Foster)

Yellow Warbler (golden) in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Birders with Beny Wilson at Panama Rainforest Discovery Center (Beny Wilson)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Holly Garrod and Josh-Covill, birding in Costa Rica, winners of most birds seen for GBD 2021!

Gray Kingbirds (Petcharies) – the 4 sentinels (Wendy Lee)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Chuck Wills Widow – migrant in Costa-Rica (Holly Garrod)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Laughing Gull, St. Simon Island, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Alligator – Altamaha Wildlife Management Area, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Laughing Gulls and Maeson Gaymes in St Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Phyllis Pollack’s son and grandson at Berkeley Marina (Phyllis-Pollack)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Scaly-naped Pigeon in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Spring birding at hotspot, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, MA, (Lisa Sorenson)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)