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!

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

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

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

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

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

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

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

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)