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English: Eagles for coats of arms with differen heraldic attitudes Eagle close. Eagle rising, wings elevated and addorsed. Eagle rising, wings elevated and displayed. Eagle rising, wings addorsed and inverted.
The eagle with its head turned and wings spread appears on the coins of Sinope between 300 and 200 BCE. [2] The eagle was also an ancient Roman symbol ( aquila ) and, later, a Byzantine symbol. The double-headed eagle appears in Byzantine art in the 900s or 1000s. [ 1 ]
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The informal term "spread eagle" is derived from a heraldic depiction of an eagle displayed (i.e. upright with both wings, both legs, and tailfeathers all outstretched). The wings are usually depicted "expanded" or "elevated" (i.e., with the points upward); displayed inverted is when the wings are depicted points downward.
English: Seal of the United States Department of Homeland Security.A graphically styled American eagle appears in a circular blue field. The eagle's outstretched wings break through an inner red ring into an outer white ring that contains a circular placement of the words "U.S. DEPARTMENT OF" in the top half and "HOMELAND SECURITY" in the bottom half.
The eagle has a red beak, tongue and claws, with open wings and feathers. In contrast to its predecessor, the eagle of the German Confederation, it has only one head, looking to the right, symbolising that important parts of the old empire, Austria and Bohemia, were not part of this new empire.
The nearly circular charge, i.e., the image of the white eagle, is highly stylized. The heraldic bird is depicted with its wings and legs outstretched, its head turned to the right, in a pose known in heraldry as 'displayed'. The eagle's plumage, as well as its tongue and leg scales are white with gradient shading suggestive of a bas-relief.