This image of the Louisiana flag is in the Public Domain and can be used freely. If you use it on a webpage, a link to http://ourworldflags.com/Louisiana would be very much appreciated.

({{en|This is the flag of Louisiana, from the xrmap flag collection 2.7. On 25 May 2006, a bill was approved in Louisiana that would add three drops of blood to the flag and the state seal.

The official flag of Louisiana shall be that flag now in general use, consisting of a solid blue field with the coat-of-arms of the state, the pelican feeding its young, in white in the center, with a ribbon beneath, also in white, containing in blue the motto of the

The official flag of Louisiana was adopted in 1912. The centered white pelican represents self-sacrifice, and also the state's long-established role as a protector.

The brown pelican is featured on the state flag of Louisiana - it is also the state bird, appears on the state seal, bicentenial quarter, state painting, and is the state's nickname: "The Pelican State.