Best photos of the month, January 2025.

Northern Hawk Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 17

Great Grey Owl | Yurii Grigorev | 16

Asian Rosy-Finch | Vadim Ivushkin | 15

Great Rosefinch | Vadim Ivushkin | 15

White-winged Snowfinch | Alexandr Kochetkov | 13

Snowy Owl | Natalia Vorobyova | 12

Upland Buzzard | Aleksey Bolshakov | 12

Northern Hawk Owl | Mishail Belousow | 11

Willow Ptarmigan | Vladimir Kuzmin | 11

Fieldfare | Aleksey Bolshakov | 11

Northern Hawk Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 11

Northern Hawk Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 10

Merlin | Pavel Karplyuk | 10

Eurasian Linnet | Alexandr Kochetkov | 10

Red-mantled Rosefinch | Alexandr Kochetkov | 10

Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker | Sergey Chumakov | 9

Bean Goose | Vladimir Pankratov | 9

Ural Owl | Marina Borovskaya | 9

Brandt's Rosefinch | Alexandr Kochetkov | 9

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Denis Voronov | 9

Snowy Owl | Natalia Vorobyova | 8

Azure Tit | Denis Kochetkov | 8

Azure-winged Magpie | Denis Kochetkov | 8

Northern Hawk Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 8

Rough-legged Buzzard | Aleksey Bolshakov | 8

Great Grey Owl | Maxim Afanasiev | 8

Rough-legged Buzzard | Nadejda Popova | 8

Eurasian Nuthatch | Olga Fattakhova | 8

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Olga Fattakhova | 8

White-Backed Woodpecker | Olga Fattakhova | 8

Eurasian Dipper | Olga Fattakhova | 8

Siberian Tit | Alexander Popov | 8

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Irina Anisimova | 8

Saker Falcon | Nina Shteinbrenner | 8

Golden Eagle | Anna Vasilchenko | 7

Northern Hawk Owl | Igor Fefelov | 7

Northern Hawk Owl | Vadim Ivushkin | 7

White-Backed Woodpecker | Aleksey Bolshakov | 7

Rough-legged Buzzard | Aleksey Bolshakov | 7

Northern Hawk Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 7

Bean Goose | Pavel Karplyuk | 7

White-winged Crossbill | Maxim Afanasiev | 7

Rough-legged Buzzard | Nadejda Popova | 7

White-Backed Woodpecker | Olga Fattakhova | 7

Common Treecreeper | Olga Fattakhova | 7

Yellowhammer | Ekaterina Belova | 7

Pallas's Rosefinch | Alexander Popov | 7

Horned Lark | Vadim Ivushkin | 6

Pallas's Rosefinch | Vadim Ivushkin | 6

Eurasian Dipper | Mihail Ivanov | 6

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Natalia Vorobyova | 6

Marsh Tit | Denis Kochetkov | 6

Northern Hawk Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 6

Eurasian Jay | Aleksey Bolshakov | 6

Cinereous Vulture | Alexandr Kochetkov | 6

European Greenfinch | Elena Kleymenova | 6

Coal Tit | Olga Fattakhova | 6

Eurasian Siskin | Olga Fattakhova | 6

Common Treecreeper | Olga Fattakhova | 6

Black Woodpecker | Yurii Grigorev | 6

Yellowhammer | Ekaterina Belova | 6

Eurasian Jay | Ekaterina Belova | 6

Baikal Bullfinch | Andrey Borodkin | 6

Ural Owl | Kostya Filimonov | 6

Northern Hawk Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 6

Common Redpoll | Igor Fefelov | 5

Horned Lark | Vadim Ivushkin | 5

Northern Grey Shrike | Vadim Ivushkin | 5

Saker Falcon | Nina Shteinbrenner | 5

Northern Hawk Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 5

Eurasian Blackbird | Andrey Chernykh | 5

Black-throated x Red-throated Hybrid Thrush | Denis Kochetkov | 5

Eurasian Jay | Nadezhda Bogomyakova | 5

Eurasian Dipper | Aleksey Bolshakov | 5

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Aleksey Bolshakov | 5

Common Redpoll | Aleksey Bolshakov | 5

Daurian Partridge | Alexandr Kochetkov | 5

Willow Tit | Tatiana Semenova | 5

Great Grey Owl | Maxim Afanasiev | 5

Marsh Tit | Olga Fattakhova | 5

Northern Hazelhen | Yurii Grigorev | 5

Yellowhammer | Ekaterina Belova | 5

Eurasian Jay | Ekaterina Belova | 5

Snowy Owl | Vjacheslav Liutin | 5

Snowy Owl | Vjacheslav Liutin | 5

Asian Rosy-Finch | Vadim Ivushkin | 5

Upland Buzzard | Aleksey Bolshakov | 5

European Greenfinch | Elena Kleymenova | 5

Eurasian Siskin | Olga Fattakhova | 5

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Denis Voronov | 5

Northern Hawk Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 5

Marsh Tit | Denis Kochetkov | 5