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!

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

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

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

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

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

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

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

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

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

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

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

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

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

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

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

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