The bird on the stump in the Storer crest is an eagle, and the man is holding a toothpick. See below for detailed discussion. Do not expect a quick answer anytime in July or August. We can now suggest broad patterns concerning our origins, as well as some very specific elements in our name that define modern-day Storrer.
Different ears hear differently.
Further, surmounting the crest is a gentleman picking his teeth with a toothpick. There are schwaches and starkes verbs. Starke means strong. Schwache means weak. The various tribes that today are considered German are found dominating the broad plains between the Rhine and the Elbe, from the Baltic Sea to the northern foothills of the Alps, long before the Romans ruled the world.