Blackbird

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)
  • Grey-winged Blackbird (Turdus boulboul)
  • White-collared Blackbird (Turdus albocinctus)
• New World blackbird, 26 species of icterid birds

Arts

Fiction

• 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

Film

• The Blackbird, a 1926 film directed by Tod Browning
• 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 Stefan Ruzowitzky
• Black Bird (film), a 1973 South Korean film featuring Nam Koong Won
• Black Birds (film), a 1967 Yugoslav film
• Blackbirds (film), a 1920 film starring Justine Johnstone
• Blackbirds (1915 film), a silent film marking an early screen appearance by Laura Hope Crews (Gone with the Wind)

Literature

• Black Bird (manga), a manga by Kanoko Sakurakoji
• Blackbird (journal), an online journal of literature and the arts
• Blackbird (book), a memoir by Jennifer Lauck

Music

Performers

• Blackbird (band), an American post-punk band
• The Blackbirds, a Norwegian rock band

Albums

• Blackbird (album), an album by Alter Bridge, or the title song (see below)
• Musta Lindu, re-released as Black Bird, by Värttinä

Songs and compositions

• "Blackbird" (song), a song by The Beatles
• "Black Bird" (song), a song by The Beautiful Girls
• "Blackbird" (Alter Bridge song)
• Le merle noir (The blackbird), a chamber work by Olivier Messiaen
• "Blackbird", a song by Benny Benassi from ...Phobia
• "Blackbird", a song by Graves
• "Blackbird", a song by Nina Simone from Nina Simone with Strings
• "Blackbird", a song by Silly Wizard from Live Wizardry
• "Blackbird", a song by Third Day from Third Day
• "Blackbird", an instrumental by Mike Oldfield from Light & Shade
• "Blackbirds", a song by Erin McKeown from Distillation
• "Blackbirds", a song by Linkin Park from the video game 8-Bit Rebellion!

Theatre

• Blackbird (play), a play by David Harrower
• Blackbirds of 1928, a Broadway revue, based on the 1926 London revue Blackbirds
• Blackbird, a play by Adam Rapp

Computing

• HP Blackbird 002, a personal computer
• Blackbird, the internal codename for Apple Computer's PowerBook 500 series of laptops
• Blackbird (online platform), a cancelled Microsoft MSN development platform
• Blackbird (JavaScript logging utility), an open-source Javascript library

People

• Chief Blackbird (d.1800), chief of the Omaha
• Andrew Blackbird (ca. 1815-1908), Odawa leader and historian
• King Parsons (born 1949), American professional wrestler who used the ring name "The Blackbird"; also, "The Blackbirds", a 1980s wrestling stable of which he was a member

Transport

• Blackbird (land yacht), a wind-powered land yacht that set the first certified record for sailing downwind faster than the wind
• Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a 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
• 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

Places

• Blackbird Township, Thurston County, Nebraska

See also

• Blackbird Hundred, an unincorporated subdivision of New Castle County, Delaware, U.S.
• Blackbirding, a recruitment practice utilizing trickery or kidnapping
• The Blackbirder, a novel by Dorothy B. Hughes