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!

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

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

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

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

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

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

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)