Blackbird

Blackbird can refer to:

Birds

• Blackbird (Turdus merula), a species of bird of the thrush family indigenous to Europe and Asia
• New World blackbirds, about 20 species of icterid birds that resemble the Blackbird including:
  • Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
  • Red-breasted Blackbird (Sturnella militaris)
  • Yellow-shouldered Blackbird (Agelaius xanthomus)

In the arts

• "Blackbird" (song), a song by the Beatles that includes the sounds of a Blackbird singing
• Blackbirds, Broadway revue 1928, 1930, 1933, and 1939, featuring an all-black cast, and produced by Lew Leslie
• Blackbird (online journal), an online journal of literature and the arts
• Blackbird (play), a play by David Harrower, which played at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005 and London's West End in 2006
• Blackbird, a play by Adam Rapp, which premiered in London in 2001
• "If I Were A Blackbird", a song by Ronnie Ronalde that includes whistling of a blackbird's song
• "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", a poem by Wallace Stevens, published in his Harmonium collection in 1923.
• "Blackbird", the second track on the album Light & Shade by Mike Oldfield.
• Blackbird (album), an album by the group Alter Bridge, released October 9, 2007.
• "Blackbird featuring Paul French" is the ninth track of the album ...Phobia by Benny Benassi

In fiction

• Blackbird (comics), aircraft piloted by the X-Men, a fictional superhero team from comics, films and TV
• Colonial Blackbird, a stealth fighter created by Chief Tyrol in the 2004 Battlestar Galactica science fiction series
• Blackbird (Femizon), also known as Jackdaw, a Hulk villainess of Marvel Comics who could fly, a member of Superia's Femizons.
• Blackbird (games), in Chrono Trigger for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, an airship used by King Dalton.

Other

• 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
• Chief Blackbird (d.1800), chief of the Omaha
• Andrew Blackbird (ca. 1815-1908), Odawa leader and historian
• Super Blackbird, a nickname for the Honda CBR1100XX sport-touring motorcycle
• HP Blackbird 002, a high-end gaming personal computer built by HP
• Blackbird, the internal codename for Apple Computer's PowerBook 500 series of laptop computers

See also

• Musta Lindu, the second album by Värttinä re-released as Black Bird in 1998
• Blackbirding, a recruitment practice utilizing trickery or kidnapping