Cormorant (heraldic animal)
Cormorant in the coat of arms of Loppa
The Cormorant is in the heraldry an emblem and rarely in arms found.
A black bird is usually shown with its wings spread out to dry.
Naming the cormorant with black tern is controversial. The heraldic animal Utterschwalbe is more like a black swan or a bald ibis . A cormorant does not have a colored patch on the chest, which is often depicted as a feature of the indefinite bird. The heraldist Heffner equates the cormorant and the Uttenschwalbe (Utterschwalbe). Even Oswald holds Uttenschwalbe and cormorant than likely a heraldic animal.
literature
- Cormorant ( heraldic animal) in the Heraldry Wiki
Individual evidence
- ↑ Landshuter Zeitung. Volume 13, Joseph Thomannsche Buchhandlung, 1861, p. 119.
- ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner : Handbook of theoretical and practical heraldry. Part 1: Theoretical Heraldry. Heraldisches Institut, Munich 1861, p. 80 - Internet Archive
- ↑ Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984, p. 406.