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!

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

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

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

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)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

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

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)