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!

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

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

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

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

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

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

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

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

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

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

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

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

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)