Crap Wildlife Photography Is So Crappy It’s Actually Amazing (50 Pics)

Crap Wildlife Photography is a Facebook group dedicated to sharing all the best crappy wildlife photos you can imagine.

I usually think of wildlife photography as beautiful frame-worthy photos but for every perfect photo, there are tons of crappy ones and many of them are hilarious. I’m just glad they’re proud to share their crap wildlife photography fails with the world in this Facebook group.

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1. “Okay…So Maybe I Need More Practice Photographing Birds”

Jeff Dunn

2. “We Have An Albino Squirrel In Our Backyard. I’ve Been Stalking Him For His Photo. Finally Got One. Isn’t He Beautiful!”

Sue Achterberg Auradon

3. “This Great Horned Owl Was Chilling On The Roof Behind Our House. I Raced Around The Block Where The Light Was Better And Got This!”

Kevin Frey

4. “Is He…Giving Me The…Bird?!”

Josh Beckner

5. “Caught This Guy Raiding The Bird Feeder At Night. Not Sure Why He Felt The Need To Cover His Private Parts”

Curt Finke

6. “Behold. The Best Fish Picture I’ve Ever Taken”

Paul M. T. Savoy

7. “Took A Photo Of This Lazy Fella A Few Years Ago”

Cindy Von Liebig Uemura

8. “I Was Trying To Take A Sweet Photo Of A Sparrow Having A Bath. I Appear To Have Taken A Photo Of Two Sparrows Committing A Murder”

Trish Sutherland

9. “Hi How Are Ya, Hi How Are Ya, Hi How Are Ya?”

Paul J Snow

10. “Part Of The Magic Of New Zealand’s Caves Is Due To The Spectacular Display Of Glow-Worms, As Illustrated In My Award-Winning Photo”

Paul Heaton

11. “It Was Fast Not My Fault”

Muneer Al Shanti

12. “Mr. Grumpy Stepped Into The Frame Uninvited When I Was Just Trying To Get A Nice Photo Of The River In Porto, Portu-Gull”

Cynthia Michelle Smith

13. “Check Out The Excellent Welds On This Steel Fencing”

Greg Lems

14. “Frog”

Christie Sanam

15. “Someone Had A Big Night! This Is A Wild Komodo Dragon. Safe To Say We Used A Different Bathroom”

Jasmine Vink

16. “Sigh. This Is My Bathroom Ceiling, That Is A Brush Tailed Possum Foot”

Sabrina Raven

17. “Took This After Getting Out Of My Car To Go In A Store”

Beth Croft Jones

18. “So I Helped A Raccoon That Was Unable To Get Up The Slippery River Bank And Was Stuck In The Water. I Was Repaid With Him Shaking The Water Off Of Himself All Over Me”

Paige Rancier

19. “I Was Trying To Take A Picture Of This Juvenile Seagull And This Sleepy Pigeon Waddled In And Stole The Show”

Jamie Andrews

20. “I Saw A Snowy Owl Today…I’d Say He Was Camouflaged Very Well”

Amy Baxter

21. “Not [Bad] Photo… But I [Pooped] My Pants… Back Away Slowly”

Emily DeWolfe

22. “Every Move You Make Every Step You Take Owl Be Watching You”

Jack Brown

23. “Here Is The Pic I Happened To Snap Once Of A Capybara Getting Snipped By A Goose. I Couldn’t Believe It When I Saw What I Captured”

Danielle Merlino

24. “Any Ornithologists Out There To Identify This Bird?”

Francesco DiCenso

25. “The Ermine In The Lovely Minnesota Snow. Nailed The Exposure On This One”

Wayne Perala

26. “Next Time Starring On Squirrel Porn Is Ballsy The Squirrel”

Rachel Beth

27. “I Thought You Might Like To Look At My Beaver”

Tammy Pollard

28. “When You Try To Feed Bambies Some Cabbage, But You Have Poor Aim”

Natasha Acephalous Pochtar

29. “I Will Be Leading A Online Class In Photography Soon. Feel Free To Western Union Me Your $500 Enrollment Deposit”

Paul Badgley

30. “I Was Doing Some Yard Work When I Saw A Roadrunner Running Around On My Roof. I Grabbed My Phone To Take A Shot, But It Jumped Off Just As I Snapped”

Aaron Hamilton

31. “That Moment When You Realize You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Bird Feeder”

Juli Alsadi

32. “Behold – A Green Tree Frog In All Its Glory Exiting Our Spa”

Beck Jelic

33. “You Are Considered Lucky To See One Cape Clawless Otter. Two Together At The Same Time Is Even More Unusual. Not Sure What It Means When Eight Demonic Ones Come And Visit You Out Of The Darkness”

Chris Leggatt

34. “Landed On The Sun Roof…Not The Most Flattering Angle”

Becky Wynn

35. “Oh Look, Honey…There’s A Sweet Little Chipmunk In The Bird House…*quickly Grabs Camera*”

Ally Trombley

36. “I Said I Don’t Want My Picture Taken”

Lyn MacDonald

37. “I Feed The Critters. The Yard Is Overrun. It Makes My Boyfriend Crazy. Today, While At Work, I Receive This Photo. Apparently, They’re Checking To See What Time I’ll Be Home”

Amy DuBois

38. “Got Yelled At Today”

Siân Addison

39. “Excuse Me, But Could I Borrow A Cup Of Sugar?”

Tracy Ricker Rose

40. “On The Way To Work Today I Looked At My Dashboard With My Toy Dinosaurs On It, And I Thought, I Don’t Remember Buying A Lizard

Tracy L. Ford

“I HAVE A LIZARD IN MY CAR! When I got to work it was over by the passenger side door. I thought great, I’ll just catch it and let it go. So I did catch it, but as I was walking to put the little guy in a bush it wiggled free and ran up the inside of my long sleeve shirt! Great, I have a lizard on me. I took off my shirt, it wasn’t in the shirt and I tried to find it on my tee-shirt. I couldn’t find it so I put my shirt back on. Then I felt it on my shoulder, I took the shirt back off and it ran to the front of my tee shirt. I caught it and let it go…” – Crap Wildlife Photography

41. “My Dog Wouldn’t Stop Barking So I Flipped On The Porch Light”

Jennifer Starr

42. “It Was A Few Years Back In Brisbane, Australia. He/She Got So Excited By The Selfie That Jumped Onto The Phone And I Dropped It. For A Second I Thought I’d Never Get It Back”

Jacek Jeziorski

43. “Derek Put The Seagull Down”

Emma George

44. “Soon As I Zoomed In It Screamed, Took A S*** And Flew Off”

Riki Lee Christmas

45. “Northern Cardinals Apparently Survive On A Steady Diet Of Tennis Balls”

Jeff Shell

46. “This Little Guys Bum Is Literally Calling His Food To Him”

Leanne Rae-Cannon

47. “This Great Horned Owl Doesn’t Believe A Word You Say”

Jody Cummings

48. “What Do You Think This Guy Wants To Tell Me? Guess I’ll Never Know. Since He Wasn’t Paying Rent I Evicted Him!”

Joanne Sheridan

49. “Indignant Bluebird Staring In From The Window Feeder”

Abbey Scott

50. “My Husband Has Wings”

Lucy Nielson-Jones
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Nate Armbruster

When he's not doomscrolling Twitter or writing for Pleated-Jeans, Nate Armbruster writes jokes—and then tells them on stage as a stand-up comedian, where he can watch audiences (hopefully) laugh in real-time.