Displayed

A hybrid monster formed of a two-legged dragon with a rooster’s head.

Default posture: statant wings addorsed. No proper coloration.

Source: Guillim’s Display of Heraldry. Artist unknown.

A hybrid monster formed of a two-legged dragon with a rooster’s head.

Default posture: statant wings addorsed. No proper coloration.

Source: Workes of Armorie. Artist: John Bossewell.

A mythical fire-breathing lizard.

Default posture: segreant (rampant wings addorsed). No proper coloration.

No longer registerable following the January 2018 ruling on quadrupeds affronty.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

A mythical fire-breathing lizard.

Default posture: segreant (rampant wings addorsed). No proper coloration.

No longer registerable following the January 2018 ruling on quadrupeds affronty.

Because the dragon’s forelegs overlap its wings and are not visible against the field, this could easily be mistaken for a wyvern if the internal detailing was not shown clearly.

Source: Heraldic Templates. Artist: Torric inn Björn.

A mythical fire-breathing lizard.

Default posture: segreant (rampant wings addorsed). No proper coloration.

No longer registerable following the January 2018 ruling on quadrupeds affronty.

Artist: Alexandre Saint Pierre.

A stylized eagle, drawn without beak or feet.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Le Blason Des Armoiries. Artist: Jérôme de Bara. (Page 93.)

A stylized eagle, drawn without beak or feet.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic 50 Art Tent. Artist: Marioun Golightly.

A peaceful bird with a tuft on the top of its head.

Default posture: close. Proper coloration: argent, with gules (or pink) feet and beak.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist unknown.

A peaceful bird with a tuft on the top of its head.

Default posture: close. Proper coloration: argent, with gules (or pink) feet and beak.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist unknown.

A small waterfowl.

Default posture: close. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Heralds’ Point Artists. Artist unknown.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Workes of Armorie. Artist: John Bossewell.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Heralds’ Point Artists. Artist: Myfanwy ferch Rhiannon.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Artist: Jon Chesey. Adapted from Anton Tirol's Wappenbuch (German, c. 1540).

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist: Thomas Ouswood.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist: Roana d’Evreux (attributed).

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist: Roana d’Evreux (attributed).

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist unknown.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Sammelband Mehrerer Wappenbücher. Artist unknown. (Folio 176v.)

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Armas de los Condes. Artist unknown.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: SVG Heraldry Components. Artist: Nicholas de Estleche.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: OpenClipArt. Artist: Firkin.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Banderia Prutenorum. Artist unknown. (Arms of Duke Conrad, folio 4v.)

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Zurich Roll. Artist unknown. Adapted by Vémundr Syvursson.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Herby Rycerstwa Polskiego. Artist unknown. (Page 696.)

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Le Blason Des Armoiries. Artist: Jérôme de Bara. (Page 92.)

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: English Arms A. Artist unknown. (Page 177.)

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Chronicle of the Council of Constance. Artist unknown. (Folio 119r.)

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Wapenboek van Gent. Artist: Vander Schelden. (Volume 1, page 14.)

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: WappenWiki. Artist: Joakim Spuller.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: The Art of Heraldry. Artist unknown. (Page 234.)

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: The Trade Signs of Essex. Artist unknown.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Bored-Artist Collection. Artist: Rozalia Krawczykowa.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Workes of Armorie. Artist: John Bossewell.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist: Roana d’Evreux (attributed).

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist unknown.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist unknown.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Wikimedia Commons. Artist: AceDouble. (Adapted from an image in the public domain.)

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Armorial de Berry. Artist: Gilles le Bouvier.

A mighty bird.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Jacques Prévert Ms. 57. Artist unknown. (Page 2.)

A clever and talkative member of the crow family.

Default posture: close. Proper coloration: sable, with argent belly and wing tips.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

A night-hunting bird of prey.

Default posture: close guardant. Proper coloration: brown, unless owl is blazoned as a type with distinctive coloration (e.g. a “snowy owl proper” would be argent).

Source: Heraldic Templates. Artist: Torric inn Björn. Adapted by Þórý Veðardóttir.

A night-hunting bird of prey.

Default posture: close guardant. Proper coloration: brown, unless owl is blazoned as a type with distinctive coloration (e.g. a “snowy owl proper” would be argent).

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist unknown.

A mythical bird rejuvenated by fire. Sometimes blazoned “rising from flames.”

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Bored-Artist Collection. Artist unknown.

A long-lived bird that rejuvenates itself by dying in fire and then being reborn.

Default posture: displayed. Always shown rising from flames, even when not explicitly so blazoned. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist: Roana d’Evreux (attributed).

A long-lived bird that rejuvenates itself by dying in fire and then being reborn.

Default posture: displayed. Always shown rising from flames, even when not explicitly so blazoned. No proper coloration.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

A mythical long-lived bird that rejuvenates itself by dying in fire and then being reborn. Always shown rising from flames, and sometimes so blazoned.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Heralds’ Point Artists. Artist unknown.

A mythical long-lived bird that rejuvenates itself by dying in fire and then being reborn. Always shown rising from flames, and sometimes so blazoned.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Heralds’ Point Artists. Artist unknown.

A corvid, like the crow, but typically drawn with “rough” or “hairy” feathers.

Default posture: close. Proper coloration: sable.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist: Elspeth Mavesine (attributed).

A corvid, like the crow, but typically drawn with “rough” or “hairy” feathers.

Default posture: close. Proper coloration: sable.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

A corvid, like the crow, but typically drawn with “rough” or “hairy” feathers. Default posture: close. Proper coloration: sable.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr. Adapted by Mathghamhain Ua Ruadháin.

A corvid, like the crow, but typically drawn with “rough” or “hairy” feathers.

Default posture: close. Proper coloration: sable.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

A fierce waterfowl, resembling an unusually large and long-necked duck.

Default posture: rousant. No proper coloration.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist unknown.

Two wings joined to each other, with wingtips to chief.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

See also “wings conjoined in lure,” a similar charge but with the wings inverted, e.g. with the wingtips to base.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist unknown.

Two wings joined to each other, with wingtips to chief.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

See also “wings conjoined in lure,” a similar charge but with the wings inverted, e.g. with the wingtips to base.

Source: Pennsic Traceable Art. Artist: Roana d’Evreux (attributed).

Two wings joined to each other, with wingtips to chief. Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

See also “wings conjoined in lure,” a similar charge but with the wings inverted, e.g. with the wingtips to base.

Source: Heraldic Templates. Artist: Torric inn Björn.

Two wings joined to each other, with wingtips to chief. Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

See also “wings conjoined in lure,” a similar charge but with the wings inverted, e.g. with the wingtips to base.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

Two wings joined to each other, with wingtips to chief. Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

See also “wings conjoined in lure,” a similar charge but with the wings inverted, e.g. with the wingtips to base.

Source: Viking Answer Lady SVG Images For Heralds. Artist: Gunnvôr silfrahárr.

Two wings joined to each other, with wingtips to chief.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

See also “wings conjoined in lure,” a similar charge but with the wings inverted, e.g. with the wingtips to base.

Source: Confréries de la Cour Amoureuse et de l’Épinette. Artist unknown. Adapted by Iago ab Adam.

Two wings joined to each other, with wingtips to chief.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

See also “wings conjoined in lure,” a similar charge but with the wings inverted, e.g. with the wingtips to base.

Artist: Jessimond of Emerickeskepe.

Two wings joined to each other, with wingtips to chief.

Default posture: displayed. No proper coloration.

See also “wings conjoined in lure,” a similar charge but with the wings inverted, e.g. with the wingtips to base.

Source: Familienwappen des Hohen Adels. Artist unknown. (Folio 9v.) Adapted by Elionora inghean Ui Cheallaigh.

A hybrid monster formed of a vulture with the head (and sometimes the torso) of a woman.

Default posture: close guardant. No proper coloration.

Source: WappenWiki. Artist: Joakim Spuller.