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!

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

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

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

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

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

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

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)