Best photos of the month, February 2026.

Great Rosefinch | Aleksey Bolshakov | 14

Ural Owl | Mishail Belousow | 9

Great Grey Owl | Natalia Vorobyova | 9

Baikal Bullfinch | Aleksey Bolshakov | 9

Eurasian Blackbird | Vladimir Pankratov | 8

Pine Grosbeak | Nina Shteinbrenner | 8

Great Rosefinch | Aleksey Bolshakov | 8

Ural Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 7

Great Grey Owl | Natalia Vorobyova | 7

Long-tailed Rosefinch | Tatiana Semenova | 7

Black-throated Thrush | Andrey Borodkin | 7

Black Woodpecker | Maxim Dolgov | 7

Great Grey Owl | Natalia Vorobyova | 7

Rough-legged Buzzard | Nina Shteinbrenner | 6

Common Treecreeper | Natalia Vorobyova | 6

Ural Owl | Natalia Vorobyova | 6

Northern Hawk Owl | Andrei Panov | 6

Great Grey Owl | Vjacheslav Liutin | 6

Common Redpoll | Maxim Dolgov | 6

Long-tailed Rosefinch | Mihail Ivanov | 6

Pine Grosbeak | Sergey Chumakov | 5

Great Grey Owl | Konstantin Samodurow | 5

Long-tailed Rosefinch | Mihail Ivanov | 5

Black Woodpecker | Natalia Vorobyova | 5

Azure-winged Magpie | Marina Borovskaya | 5

Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker | Andrei Panov | 5

Northern Goshawk | Aleksey Bolshakov | 5

Ural Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 5

Ural Owl | Andrey Borodkin | 5

Hybrid Crow | Andrey Borodkin | 5

Pine Grosbeak | Maxim Dolgov | 5

Hawfinch | Maxim Dolgov | 5

Fieldfare | Maxim Dolgov | 5

Ural Owl | Mishail Belousow | 5

Northern Hawk Owl | Andrei Panov | 5

Smew | Marina Borovskaya | 5

Ural Owl | Vladimir Pankratov | 4

Ural Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 4

Baikal Bullfinch | Mihail Ivanov | 4

Upland Buzzard | Mihail Ivanov | 4

Eurasian Siskin | Nikita Yablokov | 4

Marsh Tit | Marina Borovskaya | 4

Goosander | Aleksey Bolshakov | 4

Eurasian Dipper | Aleksey Bolshakov | 4

Great Tit | Nikolay Alekseev | 4

Willow Tit | Tatiana Semenova | 4

Carrion Crow | Andrey Borodkin | 4

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | Maxim Dolgov | 4

Hawfinch | Maxim Dolgov | 4

Goosander | Aleksey Bolshakov | 4

Ural Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 4