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!

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

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

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

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

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

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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