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!

Little Egret in Dominica (Niels Larsen)

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

Eastern Phoebe (John Kricher)

Caribbean Martins in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Parrots in flight, Panama-(Beny Wilson)

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

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

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

Lisa and Mike Sorenson birding in Massachusetts on Global Bird Day

Snail Kite perched in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Dunlins and Black-bellied Plovers (John Kricher)

Lauwersmeer National-Park, Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Adrian Cobas birding in Cuba

Orange-winged Parrot in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Jamaican Woodpecker (Claude Fletcher)

Killdeer in Antigua (Xavier Roberts)

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

Wadden Sea-Netherlands (Pedro Lourenco)

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

Inquisitive Marsh Wren (John Kricher)

Returning Bobolinks (John Kricher)

Submerged Pied-billed Grebe in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

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

Kiskidee in Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

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

Purple Martin nest with chicks. (John Kricher)

Jamaican Becard nest, reused every year (Wendy Lee)

Gorgeted Woodstar in Venezuela (Josmar-Esteban Marquez)

Pied-billed Grebe submerged in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Jamaican Becard (Wendy Lee)

Harlequin Ducks (Mark-Oberle)

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

Wild Turkeys being wild turkeys (John Kricher)

Painted Bunting, Darien, Georgia (Joe Wunderle)

Spectacled Thrush in St. Lucia (Jerome Foster)

White-crowned Pigeon in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

Yellow Warbler- in Antigua (Xavier-Roberts)

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

Greater Antillean Grackle in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

Scenic Tractor Landscape in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

Scaly-breasted Thrasher (Jerome Foster)

Antillean Mango in Puerto Rico (Rafy-Rodriguez)

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

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

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

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

Grassland Yellow Finches in Barbados (Julian Moore)

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

Spotted Sandpiper in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Lesser Yellowlegs in Puerto Rico (Rafy Rodriguez)

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

American Kestrels with lizard prey (Jerome-Foster)

American Coot on nest in Barbados (Julian-Moore)

Mallard/Black Duck Hybrid (John Kricher)

Greater Yellowlegs (Niels Larsen)

Jamaican Becard with insect prey (Claude Fletcher)

Glaucous-winged Gull (Mark Oberle)

Tropical Mockingbird in a downpour, Trinidad (Mark Hulme)

Dickcissel, seen on Road from Hagerman (John Thomlinson)

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (John Kricher)

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

Long-billed Dowitcher in Barbados (Julian Moore)

Zenaida Dove in St Lucia (Jerome Foster)