Wildlife lensman Tibor Kércz would spend a few nights each year camped out in a collapsible shelter near a tree diagram , hop-skip to bewitch photos of little owl and their nestlings . But just before nightfall on one fateful evening , three of the birds wing out onto a short branch . They landed and try out stabilizing themselves … but the owlet on the closing began to fall .

“ So I started to shoot in the correct moment , ” he told Gizmodo in a Facebook content . That serial of picture won him the 2017 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards .

The awards are mean to foreground whimsical , “ peradventure unpretentious ” picture taking of wild animals doing funny things , according totheir web site . Some of the silliest images from past contest have go bad viral , and this year ’s for certain have the potential to do the same . Ultimately , the founders ’ main destination is conservation .

Argentina’s President Javier Milei (left) and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., holding a chainsaw in a photo posted to Kennedy’s X account on May 27. 2025.

“ Well … you are now obviously going to go to your office , home , pub , club , or wherever and mouth about the dire penury for us all to be conservationists in our own little way , ” the contender ’s laminitis pen on their website . The competition is affiliate with theBorn Free Foundationwildlife conservation Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae . But Kércz likes how it gives humans the fortune to see fauna in a more relatable light .

“ It is a not bad first step and [ afford us the ] hazard to show people how funny and loveable these cute creature are , like we are , ” he tell .

The contest encounter over 3,500 entry , which were need to have been taken by the lensman , not of a pet or domesticated animate being , and without being digitally fudge . Also , terminal figure number 16 of the website ’s Terms and Conditions is “ 16 . You must think Bohemian Rhapsody one of the greatest pieces of democratic music ever write , just chaff . No badly … . ” So yeah .

William Duplessie

Anyway , here are the pictures :

Overall winner: Tibor Kércz

Winner, “In The Air” Category: Jon Threlfall

It ’s a fart joke .

Winner, “Under the Sea” Category: Troy Mayne

Winner, “On Land” Category: Andrea Zampatti

Highly Commended

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