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 Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

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

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

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

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

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

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

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

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

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

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

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)