Best photos of the month, February 2025.

Short-eared Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 20

Northern Wren | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 19

Northern Wren | Nina Shteinbrenner | 18

Boreal Owl | Alexander Popov | 18

Lapland Longspur | Alexandr Kochetkov | 17

Great Grey Owl | Ekaterina Belova | 17

Daurian Partridge | Vadim Ivushkin | 16

Northern Hawk Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 15

Northern Hawk Owl | Vadim Ivushkin | 14

Spotted Nutcracker | Vladimir Kuzmin | 14

Boreal Owl | Andrey Bazdyrev | 13

Lammergeier | Pavel Karplyuk | 13

Northern Hawk Owl | Vadim Ivushkin | 13

Short-eared Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 13

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 12

Eurasian Three-Toed Woodpecker | Nadezhda Bogomyakova | 12

Northern Hawk Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 12

Horned Lark | Alexandr Kochetkov | 12

Great Grey Owl | Maxim Afanasiev | 12

Daurian Partridge | Vadim Ivushkin | 12

Willow Tit | Vladimir Kuzmin | 11

Northern Hawk Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 11

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Olga Fattakhova | 11

Lapland Longspur | Alexandr Kochetkov | 11

Eurasian Dipper | Sergey Chumakov | 10

Northern Hawk Owl | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 10

Northern Goshawk | Sergey Pisarevskiy | 10

Merlin | Vadim Ivushkin | 10

Eurasian Dipper | Mihail Ivanov | 10

Ural Owl | Mihail Ivanov | 10

Great Tit | Vladimir Kuzmin | 10

Ural Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 10

Upland Buzzard | Aleksey Bolshakov | 10

Ural Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 10

Northern Hawk Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 10

Guldenstadt's Redstart | Pavel Karplyuk | 10

Willow Ptarmigan | Pavel Karplyuk | 10

Northern Wren | Alexandr Kochetkov | 10

Red Crossbill | Olga Fattakhova | 10

Common Treecreeper | Olga Fattakhova | 10

Northern Goshawk | Nina Shteinbrenner | 10

Snowy Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 9

Rough-legged Buzzard | Pavel Karplyuk | 9

Siberian Tit | Pavel Karplyuk | 9

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Vjacheslav Liutin | 9

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Andrey Borodkin | 9

Eurasian Dipper | Sergey Chumakov | 9

Boreal Owl | Andrey Bazdyrev | 9

Upland Buzzard | Aleksey Bolshakov | 9

Goosander | Sergey Chumakov | 8

Azure Tit | Vladimir Pankratov | 8

Eurasian Jay | Vadim Ivushkin | 8

Ural Owl | Natalia Vorobyova | 8

Black Woodpecker | Natalia Vorobyova | 8

Black Woodpecker | Nikita Yablokov | 8

European Greenfinch | Nadezhda Bogomyakova | 8

Ural Owl | Ekaterina Belova | 8

Carrion Crow | Andrey Borodkin | 8

Common Treecreeper | Andrey Borodkin | 8

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | Andrey Borodkin | 8

Black Woodpecker | Maxim Dolgov | 8

Northern Goshawk | Sergey Pisarevskiy | 8

Red-breasted Merganser | Vadim Ivushkin | 8

Northern Hawk Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 8

Guldenstadt's Redstart | Vladimir Pankratov | 7

Northern Hawk Owl | Vadim Ivushkin | 7

Lammergeier | Nina Shteinbrenner | 7

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Andrei Panov | 7

Great White Egret | Aleksei Kungurov | 7

Eurasian Nuthatch | Vladimir Kuzmin | 7

Eurasian Jay | Yaroslav Burmatov | 7

Common Kestrel | Aleksey Bolshakov | 7

Ural Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 7

Ural Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 7

Eurasian Dipper | Aleksey Bolshakov | 7

Long-tailed Rosefinch | Tatiana Semenova | 7

Northern Hawk Owl | Nadejda Popova | 7

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Elena Kleymenova | 7

Goldcrest | Vladimir Kulikov | 7

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Vjacheslav Liutin | 7

Goldcrest | Vjacheslav Liutin | 7

Goosander | Andrey Borodkin | 7

Merlin | Alexander Popov | 7

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | Maxim Dolgov | 7

Northern Hawk Owl | Vadim Ivushkin | 7

Eurasian Dipper | Aleksey Bolshakov | 7

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Olga Fattakhova | 7

Daurian Partridge | Vadim Ivushkin | 7

Northern Hawk Owl | Aleksey Bolshakov | 7

Northern Hawk Owl | Vadim Ivushkin | 7

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 7

Boreal Owl | Andrey Bazdyrev | 7

Red-throated Thrush | Vladimir Pankratov | 6

Hawfinch | Vladimir Pankratov | 6

Long-tailed Tit | Vladimir Pankratov | 6

Snow Bunting | Vadim Ivushkin | 6

Baikal Bullfinch | Vadim Ivushkin | 6

Great Rosefinch | Nina Shteinbrenner | 6

Daurian Partridge | Nina Shteinbrenner | 6

Spotted Nutcracker | Nina Shteinbrenner | 6

Northern Hawk Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 6

Redwing | Natalia Vorobyova | 6

Fieldfare | Natalia Vorobyova | 6

Northern Goshawk | Nikita Yablokov | 6

Goosander | Aleksey Bolshakov | 6

Hawfinch | Tatiana Semenova | 6

Ural Owl | Nadejda Popova | 6

Great Spotted Woodpecker | Olga Fattakhova | 6

Bean Goose | Vladimir Kulikov | 6

Ural Owl | Ekaterina Belova | 6

Great Spotted Woodpecker | Andrey Borodkin | 6

Coal Tit | Andrey Borodkin | 6

Common Treecreeper | Maxim Dolgov | 6

Common Treecreeper | Maxim Dolgov | 6

White-Backed Woodpecker | Maxim Dolgov | 6

Eurasian Blackbird | Vladimir Pankratov | 6

Daurian Partridge | Vadim Ivushkin | 6

Merlin | Vadim Ivushkin | 6

Lammergeier | Nina Shteinbrenner | 6

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 6

Eurasian Dipper | Mihail Ivanov | 6

Grey-Headed Woodpecker | Andrei Panov | 6

Common Treecreeper | Andrey Borodkin | 6

Northern Hazelhen | Andrey Borodkin | 6

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Nina Shteinbrenner | 6

Eurasian Dipper | Mihail Ivanov | 6

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Olga Fattakhova | 6

Boreal Owl | Andrey Bazdyrev | 6

Great Rosefinch | Nina Shteinbrenner | 6