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Correct flag for S Helena #132

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The national bird of Saint Helena is the Saint Helena plover, known locally as the wirebird, on account of its wire-like legs. It appears on the coat of arms of Saint Helena and on the flag.^([43][44])

  1.  Bird Watching, St Helena Tourism, archived from the original on 17 September 2010, retrieved 17 January 2011
  2.  Our Flag, Moonbeams Limited, archived from the original on 15 October 2014, retrieved 11 November 2014

Flag of Saint Helena

The [national
bird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_birds) of Saint
Helena is the [Saint Helena
plover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helena_plover "Saint Helena plover"),
known locally as the wirebird, on account of its wire-like legs. It
appears on the [coat of arms of Saint
Helena](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Saint_Helena "Coat of arms of Saint Helena") and
on the
flag.^([\[43\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helena#cite_note-43)[\[44\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Helena#cite_note-44))

1.   [*Bird
    Watching*](https://web.archive.org/web/20100917234353/http://www.sthelenatourism.com/pages/bird_watching.html),
    St Helena Tourism, archived from [the
    original](http://www.sthelenatourism.com/pages/bird_watching.html) on
    17 September 2010, retrieved 17 January 2011
2.   [*Our Flag*](http://sainthelenaisland.info/ourflag.htm), Moonbeams
    Limited, [archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20141015231127/http://sainthelenaisland.info/ourflag.htm) from
    the original on 15 October 2014, retrieved 11 November 2014

<a title="Patricia Fidi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Saint_Helena.svg"><img width="512" alt="Flag of Saint Helena" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Flag_of_Saint_Helena.svg/512px-Flag_of_Saint_Helena.svg.png"></a>
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