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!

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)

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

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

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

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

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)