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)

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

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

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

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

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

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

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

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)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

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

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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