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!

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

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

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

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

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

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

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

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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)

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

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

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)