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!

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

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

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

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

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

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

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

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

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

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

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

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

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)