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!

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

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

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

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

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

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

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

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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