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!

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

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

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

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

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

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

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

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

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

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

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)