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!

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

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

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

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

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

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

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

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

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

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)