Blackbird
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Blackbird, blackbirds, black bird or black birds may refer to:
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Birds [edit]
- 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 [edit]
Fiction [edit]
- Black Bird (manga), a 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
Film [edit]
- The Blackbird, a 1926 film directed by Tod Browning
- Black Bird (film), a 1973 South Korean film featuring Nam Koong 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
- 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
Literature [edit]
- Blackbird (journal), an online journal of literature and the arts
- Blackbird (book), a memoir by Jennifer Lauck
Music [edit]
- Instruments
- Blackbird (violin) a playable rock violin in full size, made after drawings by Antonio Stradivari (Stradivarius)
- 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 Marcy Playground from Leaving Wonderland...in a fit of rage
- "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!
- "The Blackbird", a song by The Wurzels
Theatre [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- Blackbird (online platform), a cancelled Microsoft MSN development platform
- HP Blackbird 002, a personal computer
- Blackbird (JavaScript logging utility), an open-source Javascript library
- 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
People [edit]
- 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 [edit]
- 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
- 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
Places [edit]
See also [edit]
- 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
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