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 Pamela Parker
American Avocet taking off from the water flying to parts unknown.
Location: Riparian Preserve at Water Ranch, Gilbert
Photo by Pamela Parker
Abert's Squirrel hanging out in the shade of a tall Ponderosa Pine tree near Sunset Crater.
Location: Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument
Photo by Deborah Raynes
Driving near Greer, AZ around sunset we noticed this beautiful bull elk on a hillside near the road.
Location: Greer, AZ
Photo by Deborah Raynes
After a beautiful sunrise at Whitewater draw we noticed these cranes feeding in a field.
Location: near Whitewater Draw
Photo by Deborah Raynes
This beautiful owl spent the days in my neighbor's tree. It was so beautiful to look out and see it every day.
Location: Pima County
Photo by Shawn Daniel Hendricks
Perched on an oak twig, an Anna's Hummingbird shows off the serious formality of a guardian protector.
Location: Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary
Photo by Shawn Daniel Hendricks
A Gould's Turkey hen forages amid dry grass turned golden by the late afternoon sun.
Location: Middle Garden Canyon Pond, Fort Huachuca
Photo by Julia Letcher
Photograph is of a Cardinal perched in a tree.
Location: Boyce Thompson Arboretum: Superior, AZ
Photo by MARVIN DOBKIN
Redhead male and two females
Location: Sweetwater Wetlands
Photo by MARVIN DOBKIN
Redhead couple
Location: Sweetwater Wetlands
Photo by luke
Bobcat caught an American Coot
Location: Sweetwater Wetlands
Photo by Stacy Colavito
I was fishing with my son when we came across this bald eagle enjoying its evening fish dinner....even had some blood on its beak.
Location: Canyon Lake