who says it is an eagle. What is the difference between an eagle and a phoenix?
What is the meaning of the bird looking to the right instead of the left?
But indeed .... pentagon x 3, decagon x1.
that is the freedom medal for you.
Falcons have really small heads and short beaks compared to eagles and a different wing shape, usually. Phoenixes, being mythical, are usually rendered iconically according to culture, e.g. here in the Valley of the Sun they have a stork-like long thin beak and are sitting in a fire. Chinese phoenix is different, more eagle like beak but long curled tail.
who says it is an eagle. What is the difference between an eagle and a phoenix? What is the meaning of the bird looking to the right instead of the left?
But indeed .... pentagon x 3, decagon x1. that is the freedom medal for you.
Pretty much all sources discussing the design state the bird as the bald eagle, the national bird of the United States.
The 13 star arrangement in the middle is the same as the arrangement used in the Great Seal. 13 is the number of the original founding colonies.
Falcons have really small heads and short beaks compared to eagles and a different wing shape, usually. Phoenixes, being mythical, are usually rendered iconically according to culture, e.g. here in the Valley of the Sun they have a stork-like long thin beak and are sitting in a fire. Chinese phoenix is different, more eagle like beak but long curled tail.
Ok, so it’s a falcon, or maybe a phoenix!