Bird (disambiguation)

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A bird is a feathered, winged, bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying, vertebrate animal.

Bird or the bird may also refer to:

Other common meanings

• Bird (gesture), an obscene hand gesture
• British slang for a woman

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Charlie Parker, a jazz saxophonist with the nickname Bird.
• Bird (Lisbeth Scott album), 2015
• Bird, an album by Gary Jules
• "Bird" (Mikuni Shimokawa song), 2007
• "Birds" (Coldplay song), 2016
• "The Bird" (George Jones song), 1987
• "The Bird" (Jerry Reed song), 1982
• "The Bird" (The Time song), 1984
• "Bird", a song by Tristania from Ashes

Other

• The Birds (film), a 1963 film by Alfred Hitchcock
• Bird (film), a 1988 film about Charlie "Bird" Parker
• Tracy "Bird" Van Adams, a character from Soul Food film and TV series
• Bird, a member of the Barksdale Organization on the TV series The Wire
• The Bird: The Life and Legacy of Mark Fidrych, a 2013 book by Doug Wilson
• Bird (novel), by Crystal Chan

Places

• Bird, Alaska, a neighborhood of Anchorage, Alaska
• Bird, Manitoba, a community in Canada along the Nelson River
• Bird Township (disambiguation), several township in the US
• Cape Bird, Ross Island, Antarctica
• Mount Bird, Ross Island, Antarctica, a volcano
• Bird Mountain (disambiguation), various mountains in the US
• Bird Island (disambiguation), various places
• Bird Key, Florida, US, an island
• Bird Rock (disambiguation)
• Bird Sound, Antarctica
• Bird River, Maryland
• Bird Creek, Oklahoma

People

• Bird (surname)
• Bird (given name)
• Bird (nickname)

Stage name

• Bird (singer) (born 1975), Japanese female jazz singer
• Thongchai McIntyre or Bird (born 1958), Thai singer
• Bird Millman (1890-1940), American female high-wire performer born Jennadean Engleman
• Yuan Zhang or Bird (born 1985), a member of Mandopop boy band Top Combine

Ships

• Bird-class minesweeper, Royal New Zealand Navy ship class
• Lapwing-class minesweeper or Bird-class, United States Navy minesweeper

In transportation

• Bird, a GWR 3300 Class of steam locomotive
• Bird Road, a road in Miami-Dade County, Florida
• Bird railway station, Manitoba, Canada

BIRD

• BIRD (satellite) (Bispectral and Infrared Remote Detection), an Earth observation satellite
• Bangalore Initiative for Religious Dialogue, an organization attempting to defuse tensions between religious communities
• Banque internationale pour la reconstruction et le développement, an international institution which offers loans to developing countries
• BIRD Foundation (Binational Industrial Research and Development), a foundation established by the governments of Israel and the United States

Other uses

• Bird College, a performing arts college in London, England
• Bird Internet routing daemon, an open source implementation of an IP routing daemon for Unix-like systems
• Bird's opening, a chess opening
• Bird's Custard, a brand of custard powder
• Bird Machine Company, a former American engine builder
• The Bird (mascot), mascot of the United States Air Force Academy
• Nickname of the Baltimore Orioles, a Major League Baseball team
• Nickname of the Philadelphia Eagles, a National Football League team
• Bird baronets, a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

See also

• Birds (disambiguation)
• Byrd (disambiguation)
• The Byrds, an American band from the 1960s
• B1-RD, an ultralight aircraft
• Die Vögel (opera) (The Birds), by Walter Braunfels
• Gli Uccelli (The Birds), a suite for small orchestra by Ottorino Respighi