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!

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

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

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Barbados Bullfinch, endemic to Barbados (Julian Moore)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)