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!

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

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

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

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

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

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

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

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

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)