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!

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

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

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

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

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

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

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)