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!

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

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

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

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

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

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

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

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

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

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

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

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

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

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

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba