Best photos of the month, December 2018.

Ural Owl | Vyacheslav Yusupov | 12

Black-throated Thrush | Sergey Chumakov | 12

Azure-winged Magpie | Mihail Ivanov | 12

Northern Goshawk | Anna Golubeva | 10

Purple Sandpiper | Igor Torgachkin | 10

Northern Hawk Owl | Dmitry Dubikovskiy | 10

Common Raven | Mihail Ivanov | 10

Pine Grosbeak | Mihail Ivanov | 10

Common Kestrel | Khasan Zhurtov | 8

Northern Grey Shrike | Sergey Chumakov | 8

Grey Partridge | Nina Shteinbrenner | 8

Long-tailed Tit | Nina Shteinbrenner | 8

Eurasian Blackbird | Vladimir Pankratov | 8

Long-tailed Tit | Nina Shteinbrenner | 8

Black Kite | Dmitriy Shevtsov | 7

Black-Necked Grebe | Khasan Zhurtov | 7

Snow Bunting | Alexander Rogal' | 7

Long-eared Owl | Igor Torgachkin | 7

Great Cormorant | Igor Torgachkin | 7

Azure Tit | Andrey Bazdyrev | 7

Pine Grosbeak | Mihail Ivanov | 7

Great Spotted Woodpecker | vasily malishcin | 7

Northern Hawk Owl | Oleg Andreyenkov | 7

Pygmy Woodpecker | Andrey Vyalkov | 6

Black Kite | Dmitriy Shevtsov | 6

Common Pheasant | Dmitriy Shevtsov | 6

Bearded Tit | Khasan Zhurtov | 6

Water Rail | Igor Torgachkin | 6

Great Cormorant | Igor Torgachkin | 6

Hooded Crow | Igor Torgachkin | 6

Northern Grey Shrike | Sergey Chumakov | 6

Long-eared Owl | Sergey Chumakov | 6

Pine Grosbeak | Sergey Chumakov | 6

Boreal Owl | Alina Boksorn | 6

Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Nikita Yablokov | 6

Snow Bunting | Oleg Andreyenkov | 6