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!
Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)
Glenroy Gaymes birding with son Maeson in the St Vincent Botanical Gardens (Joanne Gaymes)
Yellow-Crowed Night-Heron in flight (Jerome Foster)
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)
Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)
Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)
Barbados Bullfinch, endemic to Barbados (Julian Moore)
Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)
White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)
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!
Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)
Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)
Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)
Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)
Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)
Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)
Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day
Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)
Cattle Egret portrait, St. Lucia (Jerome-Foster)
Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)
Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)
Double-crested and Neotropic Cormorants, Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge (John Thomlinson)
Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)
Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba
Gray Kingbirds (Petcharies) – the 4 sentinels (Wendy Lee)
Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)
Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)
Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)
Birders with Beny Wilson at Panama Rainforest Discovery Center (Beny Wilson)
Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)
Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)
Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)
Jeff Gerbracht selfie, yes, it’s snowing again for GBD in Ithaca, NY.
Red-billed Streamertail – endemic in Jamaica. (Photo by Claude Fletcher)
Scaly-naped Pigeon in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)
Chuck Wills Widow – migrant in Costa-Rica (Holly Garrod)
Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)
Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)
Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)
Wild Turkey Jaywalking on Plum-Island, Massachusetts (Lisa-Sorenson)
Spring birding at hotspot, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, MA, (Lisa Sorenson)
Laughing Gulls and Maeson Gaymes in St Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)
Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)
Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)
Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)
Semi-palmated Plovers in St. Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)
Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)
Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)
Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)
Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)
American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)
Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)
Yellow Warbler (golden) in Barbados (Julian-Moore)
Laughing Gull, St. Simon Island, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)
Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)
Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron juvenile in Canash, St. Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)
Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)
Phyllis Pollack’s son and grandson at Berkeley Marina (Phyllis-Pollack)
Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)