2025 Arizona Wildlife Views Photo Contest
2024 Winning Photograph by Randi Najac
Do you want to see your photo on the cover of Arizona Wildlife Views?
Do you have a knack for capturing great photos of wildlife?
Then you won’t want to miss the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s
19th Annual Wildlife Photo Contest.
One best in show and 11 winners will be showcased in the 2026 calendar, which is published as part of the November-December 2025 issue of Arizona Wildlife Views. The best-in-show photo is published on the cover of the issue and as one of the photos representing a month. Winning photos may also appear in future issues of Arizona Highways magazine.
All photos must depict wildlife native to and found in Arizona, and all photos must have been taken in Arizona settings. Entrants are responsible for complying with the Official Rules; not doing so may result in disqualification.
The submission deadline is 5 p.m. MST on August 8, 2025.
Please view OFFICIAL RULES before submitting entries.
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Photo by Ricky Melendez
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake slithering through some grass
Location: Sweetwater Wetlands
Photo by Cholini
Location: Prescott Valley
Photo by JoAnne Bien
waiting for a fish
Location: Woods Canyon Lake
Photo by JoAnne Bien
Bobcats
Location: my home in Tucson, AZ
Photo by Chloe Dobson
Hummingbird scratching her head
Location: Prescott Valley
Photo by Chloe Dobson
Location: Prescott Vallet
Photo by Rick Williams
Desert bighorn sheep ewe looking down from the edge of a cliff.
Location: Superstition Wilderness of the Tonto National Forest
Photo by Kenny Sugarman
While Hiking in the Chiricahua Mountains came across this Coatimundi holding its Baby.
Location: East side of the Chiricahua Mountains
Photo by Jenny L. Clark
A hungry White-nosed Coati kit enjoys a breakfast feast of jelly palm fruit.
Location: Boyce Thompson Arboretum
Photo by Jenny L. Clark
A Western Screech Owl perches on a Palo Verde tree at dusk getting ready to hunt for dinner.
Location: Fountain Hills
Photo by Jenny L. Clark
Harris’s hawk takes flight in the golden light of sunset with Usery Mountains as the backdrop.
Location: Usery Mountain Regional Park
Photo by Douglas Coxon
An adult Bald Eagle with sticks flying apparently to its nest.
Location: Near the Agua Fria riverbed