Bird (disambiguation)
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Other than the class of animals known as birds, bird or birds may refer to more than one article:
Bird is a common surname: see Bird (surname)
Other uses of Bird as a personal name:
- Lynda Bird (Lynda Bird Johnson Robb) (born 1944), daughter of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson
- Charlie Parker (Charlie "Bird" Parker) (1920–1955), American jazz musician
- Bird McIntyre (born 1958), Thai singer
- Kicking Bird, a Kiowa chief.
- Yellow Bird, chief of the Walla Walla tribe.
- Edison Real Bird, a former chairman of the Crow Nation tribal council.
Bird or Birds used in other ways:
- Bird (1988 film), a 1988 film about Charlie "Bird" Parker
- The Bird, song by the band The Time
- Birds (Bic Runga album)
- The finger, synonym for "the bird", an offensive gesture
- The Bird (mascot), mascot of the U.S. Air Force Academy
- Ningbo Bird, a Chinese manufacturer of mobile phones
- Bird's, the company responsible for Bird's Custard, a cornflour-based substitute for traditional custard.
- Early Bird, the name of the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit
- "bird" is a slang term for a woman, primarily in use in the UK. It is considered a mildly derogatory term.
- "bird" is also an somewhat old fashioned UK slang term for a prison sentence.
- "bird" in reference to a satellite. It is commonly said "to come up on the bird". This means to establish a communications loopback between the ground terminal and satellite or with the distant end terminal through the satellite.
- "Birds", a song by Quasi from their 1998 album Featuring "Birds"
- The Yardbirds, an early rock band from Britain.
- The New Yardbirds, a band formed after the breakup of The Yardbirds by Yardbirds guitarist Jimmy Page. Eventually formed into Led Zeppelin.
