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Olomouc okres, Czech Republic

Olomouc region

Last modified: 2002-10-26 by jarig bakker
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Bystročice municipality flag

[Bystrocice flag] by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 27 May 2002, after image by Petr Exner; flag adopted 11 May 2001

Drahanovice municipality flag

[Drahanovice flag]by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 6 Jun 2002, after image by Petr Exner; flag adopted 8 Oct 2001

Loučany municipality flag

[Loucany flag] by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 17 Oct 2002, after image by Petr Exner; flag adopted 8 Oct 2001

Lutín municipality flag

[Lutín flag] by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 8 Aug 2002, after image by Petr Exner; flag adopted 22 Nov 2001

Lužice municipality flag

[Luzice flag] by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 17 Oct 2002, after image by Petr Exner; flag adopted 8 Oct 2001

Štěpánov municipality flag

[Stepánov flag] by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 8 Apr 2002, after image by Petr Exner; flag adopted 9 Dec 1996

Újezd municipality flag

[Újezd municipality flag] by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 21 Sep 2001, after image by Petr Exner; flag adopted 26 Jun 2000

Vilémov municipality flag

[Vilémov municipality flag] by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 5 May 2002, after image by Petr Exner; flag adopted 12 Jan 1996

At first appearance it looks like a pelican, but there are only 8 known species and none has that peak. I know this is a waterfowl bird, but don't remember its name.
Blas Delgado Ortiz, 5 May 2002

It is an evident *heraldic* pelican, not completely similar to any living species. However, there are no red-white checkered
eagles in Moravia and no two-tailed lions in Bohemia ... :-)
Jan Zrzavy, 6 May 2002

Pelican is right.  Blas is simply impeded by the knowledge of what a pelican actually looks like. Any time you see a bird in this posture (tearing its own breast to feed its young), it's a pelican.  But a heraldic pelican, not a natural one, since natural pelicans don't indulge in this kind of masochistic obsession with doing anything and everything for one's offspring.  A real pelican's beak, of course, could not remotely tear the bird's own flesh, which is why many old-time heraldists (having little information about the actual bird) portrayed it with something more like a vulture's beak.  Vilémov's is closer to reality than many.
Joe McMillan, 6 May 2002






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