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!

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

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

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

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

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

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

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

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

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

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)