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!

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

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

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)