Esther's photos with the keyword: female

Desert Botanical Garden Phoenix, Arizona Arizona has at least 17 species of hummingbirds. This might be a female Costa's hummingbird. Hummingbirds flap their wings 50-80 times per second. AP1123836

"The gerenuk, whose name means “giraffe-necked” in Somali, is an exceptionally long-necked antelope. Their head is small for their size, but their eyes and ears are large. Only the males have horns, which are stout and heavily ringed, and they have a more heavily muscled neck than the females do. They have a coat that is brown on the upper back and lighter on the sides. The short tail looks longer as it ends in a tuft of black hair. Like many other gazelles, these large antelopes have preorbital glands in front of the eyes that emit a tar-like, scent-bearing substance they deposit on twigs and bushes to mark their territory. They also have scent glands on their knees that are covered by tufts of hair and between their split hooves." www.awf.org/wildlife-conservation/gerenuk AIMG 8222

Along the Charles River, Watertown, Massachusetts AIMG 4134

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Canada Geese used to only winter in Massachusetts. Now, many of them have stopped migrating and live here year round. IMG 3998

Caryatids are female figures that are act like columns for the horizontal mouldings of a building. This is a Caryatid from the Erechtheion in Athens. Her four sisters remain in Greece. Caryatids are female figures that serve as the architectural support for the entablature of a building. "On the high stylobate of the south porch of the Erechtheion are six maidens, who take the place of columns in supporting the entablature. Now severely weathered and affected by pollution, five of the caryatids were removed to the Acropolis Museum in 1978 and replaced with replicas. The other figure (the second from the left in the first row of four) was appropriated by Lord Elgin, who, between 1801 and 1805, removed about half of the surviving sculptures from the fallen ruins of the Acropolis and from the Parthenon, itself. They were acquired by the British Museum in 1816 and put on public display the following year. Between 1937 and 1938, even the British caryatid, which certainly is in better condition than its sisters, was damaged when masons abraded the surface (as well as that of some of the Parthenon sculptures) in a misguided and unauthorized attempt to brighten them for the opening of the new gallery in which they were to be displayed." penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_Romana/imperialfora/augustus/erechtheion.html AIMG 6351

Female Red-winged Blackbird AIMG 3467

Female impala and plains zebra at Sweetwaters Tented Camp - Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya LIMG 1351

Female wood duck AIMG 6494

Female wood duck IMG 6495

Female Monarch Butterfly AIMG 8076

Female Monarch Butterfly AIMG 8104

Female Monarch Butterfly AIMG 8107

Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly The Sunday Challenge: In the garden. AIMG 8131

Female northern cardinal AIMG 4835

Female Dark-eyed Junco AIMG 4838

Female mallard duck AIMG 3158

Mallard - Bar Harbor, Maine AIMG 2599