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!

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

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

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

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

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

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

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

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

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

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

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

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

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)