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!

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

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

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

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

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)