The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards 2017

[Carmen Elsa Irarragorri Wyland]

An owl dangling precariously from a branch has scooped the overall prize of this year's Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.

Out of the 3,500 entries, Tibor Kercz won the overall prize with his series of images showing an owl losing its footing and trying to claw its way back on to a branch.

Other entrants:

 

Tibor Kercz's photo of an undignified owl was the overall winner

 

 

Andrea Zampatti won the Land category with a photograph of a dormouse

 

Troy Mayne won Under The Sea category with a photobombing sea turtle

 

John Threlfall won the In The Air category with a bird and an ominous vapour trail

 

'Highly Commended' photos

Daisy Gilardini photographed a polar bear clinging on to its mother

 

Penny Palmer caught a sea otter reaching for the sky

 

Carl Henry's was highly commended for his photo entitled All Dressed And Ready For Church

 

Olivier Colle spotted a hare munching on grass

 

Katy Laveck-Foster snapped two cheeky monkeys

 

Jean-Jacques Alcalay captured the moment it looked as though a wildebeest was riding on the back of its companions

 

George Cathcart was highly commended for his photo entitled WTF

 

Douglas Croft caught a fox getting a hole in one on a golf course

 

Daniel Trim snapped two mudskippers appearing to be in mid-song

 

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards are releasing a book, which helps support the Born Free Foundation charity.

 

There's no point in being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes. Dr. Who