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!

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

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

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

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (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)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

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

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

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