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!

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

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

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

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

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

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

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

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

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)