Martlet

The Merlette is a heraldic trimmed small, duck -like bird. It lacks beak and feet. The Merlette, also known as Merle is, prevalent since the early days of heraldry in the French and Rhenish coats of arms. According to tradition, only participating knights of the Crusades who must wear this emblem as an award in the coat of arms. Many see heraldist in the Merle gestümmelte a blackbird (French Merl or Merlette ').