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!

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

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

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

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

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

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

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

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

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