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!

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

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

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

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

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

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

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

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

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

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

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

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

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

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

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

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

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

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

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

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

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

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)