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!

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

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

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

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

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

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

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

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)