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!

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Grassland Yellow Finches 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)

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

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

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

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)