Blackbird

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Blackbird, blackbirds, black bird or black birds may refer to:

Birds

• Old World blackbirds, species belonging to the genus Turdus
  • Common blackbird or blackbird (Turdus merula)
• New World blackbirds, 26 species of icterid birds

Geography

• Blackbird, Delaware
• Blackbird Hundred, an unincorporated subdivision of New Castle County, Delaware, U.S.
• Blackbird Township, Thurston County, Nebraska
• Blackbird Leys, a civil parish in Oxford, England
• Blackbird Vineyards, a California winery
• Blackbird mine, a defunct cobalt mine in Lemhi County, Idaho, U.S.

Sports

• LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds, sports teams of Long Island University's Brooklyn campus
• FC Jyväskylä Blackbird, a Finnish football club
• Baltimore Blackbirds, a defunct indoor American football team

Computing

• Blackbird (online platform), a cancelled Microsoft MSN development platform
• HP Blackbird 002, a personal computer
• Blackbird, an internal codename for Apple Computer's Macintosh IIfx desktop computer
• Blackbird, the internal codename for Apple Computer's PowerBook 500 series of laptops
• Blackbird Group, a defunct enterprise software company

Transport

• Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a United States Air Force supersonic reconnaissance aircraft built by Lockheed-Martin.
• A-12 Blackbird, the unofficial nickname for the forerunner to the SR-71 Blackbird, codenamed A-12 OXCART
• Blackbird (land yacht), a wind-powered land yacht that set the first certified record for sailing downwind faster than the wind
• Aero A.34 Kos (English: Blackbird), a 1930s Czechoslovakian biplane
• Super Blackbird, a model name given to the Honda CBR1100XX sport-touring motorcycle
• Blackbird, a GWR 3300 Class steam locomotive on the Great Western Railway in England
• "The Blackbird", a dragster driven by professional racer Jack Beckman
• Mutual Blackbird, a late 1920s biplane made by the Mutual Aircraft Company

Books

• Blackbird (journal), an online journal of literature and the arts
• Blackbird, a 1986 novel by Larry Duplechan
• Blackbird (memoir), a 2000 memoir by Jennifer Lauck
• Black Bird (2003 novel), a novel by Michel Basilières
• Blackbird (2011 novel), a novel by Jude Dibia

Theatre

• Blackbird (play), a 2005 play by David Harrower
• Blackbirds of 1928, a Broadway revue, based on the 1926 London revue Blackbirds
• Blackbirds of 1933, a follow-up to Blackbirds of 1928
• Blackbird, a play by Adam Rapp

Comics

• Black Bird (manga), a 2007 manga by Kanoko Sakurakoji
• Blackbird (comics), an aircraft in the X-Men comics
• Blackbird (Femizon), a villain in the Marvel Comics universe
• Colonial Blackbird, a stealth fighter in the reimagined version of the TV series Battlestar Galactica
• Blackbird, an airship in the video game Chrono Trigger
• Blackbird, a car (an 911 3.6 Turbo) in the anime Wangan Midnight and its video game adaptation, Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune
• Task Force Blackbird, a CIA organization in the video game Medal of Honor: Warfighter

Film and TV

• Beyond the Lights, a 2014 film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood originally titled Blackbird
• The Blackbird, a 1926 film directed by Tod Browning
• Black Bird, a 1973 South Korean film featuring Namkoong Won
• The Black Bird, a 1975 film starring George Segal
• Blackbird (2007 film), a film directed by Adam Rapp
• Blackbird (2012 film), a film directed by Jason Buxton
• Blackbird (2014 film), a 2014 film directed by Patrik-Ian Polk
• Blackbirds (1915 film), a silent film marking an early screen appearance by Laura Hope Crews (Gone with the Wind)
• Blackbirds (1920 film), a lost silent film starring Justine Johnstone
• Black Birds (film), a 1967 Yugoslav film
• Deadfall (2012 film), a film directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky which had the working title Blackbird

Music

• Blackbird (violin), a playable rock violin in full size, made after drawings by Antonio Stradivari (Stradivarius)
• Epiphone Blackbird, an electric bass guitar made by Epiphone

Performers

• Blackbird (band), an American post-punk band
• The Blackbirds (Norwegian band), a Norwegian rock band
• The Blackbirds (German band), a German rock band of the 1960s
• The Blackbirds (South African band), group of Peter Rezant
• The Blackbyrds, an American rhythm and blues and jazz-funk fusion group

Albums

• Blackbird (Dan Sultan album), a 2014 award-winning album by Dan Sultan
• Blackbird (Alter Bridge album), a 2007 album by Alter Bridge, and its title song (see below)
• Musta Lindu, re-released as Black Bird, by Värttinä
• Blackbird (Fat Freddy's Drop album), a 2013 album by Fat Freddy's Drop

Songs and compositions

• "Blackbird" (Beatles song), 1968
• "Blackbird" (Alter Bridge song), 2007
• Le merle noir (The blackbird), a chamber work by Olivier Messiaen
• "Blackbird", a song by Benny Benassi from ...Phobia
• "Blackbird", a song by Dido from Girl Who Got Away
• "Blackbirds", a song by Erin McKeown from Distillation
• "Blackbird", a song by Graves
• "Blackbird", a song by Marcy Playground from Leaving Wonderland...in a fit of rage
• "Blackbird", an instrumental by Mike Oldfield from Light & Shade
• "Blackbird", a song by Silly Wizard from Live Wizardry
• "Blackbird", a song by Nina Simone from Nina Simone with Strings
• "Black Bird", a 2003 song by The Beautiful Girls
• "Blackbird", a song by Third Day from Third Day
• "Blackbirds", a song by Linkin Park from the video game 8-Bit Rebellion!
• "The Blackbird", a song by The Wurzels
• "Blackbird", a song by Fat Freddy's Drop
• "Bye Bye Blackbird", a 1926 jazz standard by Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon often known simply as "Blackbird"
• "Blackbird", a song by Sarah McLachlan

People

• Chief Blackbird (c. 1750–1800), chief of the Omaha
• King Parsons (born 1949), American wrestler who used the ring name "The Blackbird"; also, "The Blackbirds", a 1980s wrestling stable of which he was a member
• Ziryab (789-857), Kurdish musician and performer, whose name means "blackbird" or "nightingale"

People with the surname

• Andrew Blackbird (c. 1815–1908), Odawa leader and historian
• Lewis Blackbird (born 1987), British motorcycle speedway rider

See also

• Blackbirding, a recruitment practice utilizing trickery or kidnapping
• The Blackbirder, a 1943 novel by Dorothy B. Hughes

References