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!

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

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

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

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

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

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

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

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

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

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

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

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

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

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

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

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

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)