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)

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

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

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

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

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

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

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

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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