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A bird shown from the front with both wings spread open.
The standard attitude for an eagle: seen from the front, wings spread wide, legs apart. Almost every national eagle — imperial, Habsburg, Polish, American — is an eagle displayed.
Describes a bird shown facing the viewer with both wings spread open and the legs apart.
The conventional attitude for the heraldic eagle, and the form taken by most national and imperial eagles.
A bird seen from the front with both wings spread wide open and its legs apart.
The attitude is blazoned together with the bird it describes.