in vigilance

Arms : Azure standing within a crown gold surmounting a conical mound in base vert a crane in her vigilance all silver.

1928, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Committee on Heraldry, A Roll of Arms, page 10

Quarterly; 1st and 4th azure, crane in his vigilance argent, gorged of a crown or; second and third[…]

1973, Helen B. Walter, Robert J. Walter, Nicola Walter and Descendants

If by chance it falls asleep, the stone would drop and thus awaken it. In heraldry, the cranes most often were presented as in vigilance.

1977, Lucia Liu Severinghaus, A Design for an Education Center at the International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin

Crest. A crane in its vigilance. Motto. Vigilantia (Seal on Col Paumiér's will).

1983, Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society

KHVOSHCHINSKY -1- A : Per fess gules and azure, in chief fesswise a crescent points couped in pale Or, and in base a crane in its vigilance, proper.

1992, Donald R. Mandich, Joseph Anthony Placek, Russian Heraldry and Nobility, Dramco