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)
Alligator – Altamaha Wildlife Management Area, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)
Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)
Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)
Red-billed Streamertail – endemic in Jamaica. (Photo by Claude Fletcher)
Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)
Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)
Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)
Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)
Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)
Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)
American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)
Glenroy Gaymes birding with son Maeson in the St Vincent Botanical Gardens. (Photo by Joanne Gaymes)
Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)
Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)
Birders with Beny Wilson at Panama Rainforest Discovery Center (Beny Wilson)
Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Laughing Gulls and Maeson Gaymes in St Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)
Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)
Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)
Yellow Warbler (golden) in Barbados (Julian-Moore)
Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba
Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Gray Kingbirds (Petcharies) – the 4 sentinels (Wendy Lee)
Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)
Laughing Gull, St. Simon Island, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)
Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)
Phyllis Pollack’s son and grandson at Berkeley Marina (Phyllis-Pollack)
Yellow-Crowed Night-Heron in flight (Jerome Foster)
Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)
Wild Turkey Jaywalking on Plum-Island, Massachusetts (Lisa-Sorenson)
Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)
Chuck Wills Widow – migrant in Costa-Rica (Holly Garrod)
White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)
Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron juvenile in Canash, St. Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)
Semi-palmated Plovers in St. Vincent (Joanne Gaymes)
Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)
Spring birding at hotspot, Mt. Auburn Cemetery, MA, (Lisa Sorenson)
Barbados Bullfinch, endemic to Barbados. (Photo by Julian Moore)
Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)
Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)
Holly Garrod and Josh-Covill, birding in Costa Rica, winners of most birds seen for GBD 2021!
Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)
Beny Wilson with GBD birding group, including Rick Morales and Ivan Skildsen (Minister of Tourism) in Panama (Beny Wilson)
Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day
Cattle Egret portrait, St. Lucia (Jerome-Foster)
Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)
Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)
Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)
Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)
Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)
Double-crested and Neotropic Cormorants, Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge (John Thomlinson)
Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)
Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)
Scaly-naped Pigeon in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)
Jeff Gerbracht selfie, yes, it’s snowing again for GBD in Ithaca, NY.
Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)
American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)
Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)
Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)
Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)
Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)
Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)
Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)
Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)