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!
Alligator – Altamaha Wildlife Management Area, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)
Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)
Barbados Bullfinch, endemic to Barbados (Julian Moore)
Yellow Warbler (golden) in Barbados (Julian-Moore)
Wild Turkey Jaywalking on Plum-Island, Massachusetts (Lisa-Sorenson)
Jeff Gerbracht selfie, yes, it’s snowing again for GBD in Ithaca, NY.
Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)
Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)
Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)
Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)
Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)
Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day
Phyllis Pollack’s son and grandson at Berkeley Marina (Phyllis-Pollack)
Glenroy Gaymes birding with son Maeson in the St Vincent Botanical Gardens (Joanne Gaymes)
Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)
Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)
Cattle Egret portrait, St. Lucia (Jerome-Foster)
Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)
Birders with Beny Wilson at Panama Rainforest Discovery Center (Beny Wilson)
Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)
Yellow-Crowed Night-Heron in flight (Jerome Foster)
Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Gray Kingbirds (Petcharies) – the 4 sentinels (Wendy Lee)
Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)
Holly Garrod and Josh-Covill, birding in Costa Rica, winners of most birds seen for GBD 2021!
American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)
Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)
Scaly-naped Pigeon in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)
Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)
Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)
Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)
American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)
Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)
Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)
Semi-palmated Plovers in St. Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)
Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)
Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)
Laughing Gull, St. Simon Island, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)
Spring birding at hotspot, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, MA, (Lisa Sorenson)
Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)
Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)
Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)
Chuck Wills Widow – migrant in Costa-Rica (Holly Garrod)
Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)
Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)
Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)
Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)
Laughing Gulls and Maeson Gaymes in St Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)
Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba
Beny Wilson with GBD birding group, including Rick Morales and Ivan Skildsen (Minister of Tourism) in Panama (Beny Wilson)
Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron juvenile in Canash, St. Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)
Red-billed Streamertail – endemic in Jamaica. (Photo by Claude Fletcher)
Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)
Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)
Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)
Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)
Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)
Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)
Double-crested and Neotropic Cormorants, Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge (John Thomlinson)
Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)
White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)
Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)