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!

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

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

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

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)