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!

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

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

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

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

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

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

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

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

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

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

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