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