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!

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

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

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

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

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

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

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