Quail (heraldic animal)

In heraldry, the quail is a heraldic figure and joins the group of small heraldic animals.

The animal is set in a stylized form in the coat of arms and the tinging is based on the heraldic rules. The quail is rare in the coat of arms and can be confused with the heraldic animal partridge .

The quail is suitable as a figure for talking coats of arms . Name forms such as quail, quail and wachel, for example, are suitable for this coat of arms.

• 

  Two facing quails in mixed up colors in the Liederbach am Taunus coat of arms

• 

  Three 2: 1 golden quails in the Niederhofheim coat of arms

• 

  Three 2: 1 black quails in the coat of arms Wachenheim (Pfrimm)

literature

• Maximilian Gritzner : Large and general book of arms . Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1888, p. 92. (Books on Demand GmbH, 2013, ISBN 978-3-84572-604-5 .)

Web links

Commons : Quail in Heraldry  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Quail ( heraldic animal) in the Heraldry Wiki