Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Winning Photos

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards, founded in 2015 by wildlife photographers Paul Joynson-Hicks and Tom Sullam, reward real wild animals caught at their least dignified. This gallery gathers winning and highly commended photos from the 2015 to 2025 contests, in order by year: most of the overall winners, plus the category winners that land the biggest laughs. None of these moments were staged. A fox misjudges a pounce, a squirrel misjudges a hole, a heron misjudges a dive, and the photographer had a fraction of a second to be ready. Each caption names the award and year, the species and the place where they are known, and the photographer, so the timing can speak for itself.