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!

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

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

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

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

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

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

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

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)