An image of a red squirrel stuck in a tree has been named the winner of this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.

With a record 9,000 entries competing this year, the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has reached its conclusion — and these are the winners for 2024.

More than 9,000 entries from 98 countries – the most ever – were received for this year's edition of the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards is one of the most popular, and undoubtedly the funniest, photography competitions in the calendar year, and Milko Marchetti's Stuck Squirrel takes this year's top prize.

It can take hours – and sometimes several days – in the wilderness to shoot the kinds of photographs that capture our imagination and reveal lesser-known facets of the lives of animals with whom we share our planet.

Milko wins a safari trip to the Maasai Mara game reserve in Kenya, while Nikon's Young photographer category winner, Kingston Tam, walks away with a Nikon Z8 mirrorless camera and 24-120mm zoom lens for their closeup image of a frog.

A squirrel in a predicament, a preying mantis performing the Flamenco dance and a frog in a balloon have taken out the top honours in this year's Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. The judging panel selected the winners from a pool of more than 4000 entries by professional and amateur photographers during the 10th anniversary of the contest.

Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2024 crowns Milko Marchetti for “Stuck Squirrel,” celebrating humour and creativity in nature photography.

The competition, which has been going since 2015, offers a place for nature photographers to show off the amusing snapshots they've captured while documenting the natural world.