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!

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

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

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