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!

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

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

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

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

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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)

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

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)