Blackbird

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

Birds
Two groups of birds in the Passerida parvorder:
 * Old World blackbirds, any of several species belonging to the genus Turdus in the Turdidae family
 * Chinese blackbird
 * Common blackbird
 * Grey-winged blackbird
 * Indian blackbird
 * Somali thrush or Somali blackbird
 * Tibetan blackbird
 * White-collared blackbird
 * New World blackbirds, any of 26 species in the Icteridae family

Books

 * Black Bird (Basilières novel), 2003, by Michel Basilières
 * Blackbird (Dibia novel), 2011
 * Blackbird (memoir), 2000, by Jennifer Lauck
 * Blackbird, a 1986 novel by Larry Duplechan
 * Blackbird (journal), an online journal of literature and the arts
 * Black Bird (manga), 2007, by Kanoko Sakurakoji
 * Blackbird (comics), an aircraft in the X-Men comics
 * Blackbird (Femizon), a villain in the Marvel Comics universe

Films

 * Black Bird, a 1973 South Korean film featuring Namkoong Won
 * Black Birds (film), a 1967 Yugoslav film
 * Blackbird (2007 film), directed by Adam Rapp
 * Blackbird (2012 film), directed by Jason Buxton
 * Blackbird (2013 film), a 2013 drama film
 * Blackbird (2014 film), directed by Patrik-Ian Polk
 * Blackbird (upcoming film), an upcoming drama film directed by Roger Michell
 * Blackbirds (1915 film), a silent film starring Laura Hope Crews
 * Blackbirds (1920 film), a lost silent film starring Justine Johnstone
 * The Black Bird, a 1975 film starring George Segal
 * The Blackbird, a 1926 film directed by Tod Browning
 * Deadfall (2012 film), directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, which had the working title Blackbird
 * Beyond the Lights, a 2014 film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood originally titled Blackbird

Theatre

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

Instruments

 * Blackbird (violin), a playable full size violin made of igneous rock
 * Epiphone Blackbird, an electric bass guitar

Groups

 * Blackbird (band), an American post-punk band
 * The Blackbirds (German band), 1960s
 * The Blackbirds (Norwegian band)
 * The Blackbirds (South African band)
 * The Blackbyrds, an American rhythm and blues and jazz-funk fusion group

Albums

 * Blackbird (Alter Bridge album), 2007
 * Blackbird (Fat Freddy's Drop album), 2013, or the title song
 * Blackbird (Dan Sultan album), 2014
 * Musta Lindu, re-released as Black Bird, by Värttinä

Songs and compositions

 * "Blackbird" (Beatles song), 1968
 * "Blackbird" (Alter Bridge song), 2007
 * "Blackbird" (Norma John song), 2017
 * Le Merle noir ("The Blackbird"), a chamber work by Olivier Messiaen
 * "Blackbird", a song by Alkaline Trio from Is This Thing Cursed?
 * "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 Madness from Can't Touch Us Now
 * "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
 * "The Blackbird Ballet", a song by Jimmy Barnes from Och Aye the G'nu
 * "Bye Bye Blackbird", a 1926 jazz standard by Ray Henderson and Mort Dixon often known simply as "Blackbird"

Other

 * Blackbird, a car in the anime Wangan Midnight and the video game, Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune
 * Task Force Blackbird, a CIA organization in the video game Medal of Honor: Warfighter

People

 * Blackbird (Omaha leader) (c. 1750–1800)
 * Andrew Blackbird (c. 1815–1908), Odawa leader and historian
 * Lewis Blackbird (born 1987), British motorcycle speedway rider
 * King Parsons (born 1949), American wrestler who used the ring name "The Blackbird"
 * Ziryab (789–857), Kurdish musician and performer, whose name means "blackbird" or "nightingale"

Places

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

Computing

 * Blackbird (codec), video compression software
 * Blackbird (online platform), a cancelled Microsoft MSN development platform
 * 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
 * HP Blackbird 002, a personal computer

Air

 * Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a United States Air Force supersonic reconnaissance aircraft
 * 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
 * Mutual Blackbird, a late 1920s biplane

Land and rail

 * Blackbird (land yacht), a wheeled vehicle which demonstrated that it is possible to sail downwind faster than the wind
 * Blackbird, a GWR 3300 Class steam locomotive on the Great Western Railway in England
 * Super Blackbird, a model name given to the Honda CBR1100XX sport-touring motorcycle
 * "The Blackbird", a dragster driven by professional racer Jack Beckman

Sport

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