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 Becard (Wendy Lee)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

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

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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