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!

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

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

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

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

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

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

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

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

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba