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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
- New World blackbirds, any of 26 species in the Icteridae family
Arts, entertainment, and media
Comics and manga
- Black Bird (manga), 2007, by Kanoko Sakurakoji
- Blackbird (comics), an aircraft in the X-Men comics
Fictional entities
- Blackbird (Femizon), a villain in the Marvel Comics universe
- Blackbird, a car in the anime Wangan Midnight and the video game, Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune
- Colonial Blackbird, a stealth fighter in the reimagined version of the TV series Battlestar Galactica
- Task Force Blackbird, a CIA organization in the video game Medal of Honor: Warfighter
Films
- Beyond the Lights, a 2014 film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood originally titled Blackbird
- 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
- Blackbirds (1915 film), a silent film starring Laura Hope Crews
- Blackbirds (1920 film), a lost silent film starring Justine Johnstone
- Deadfall (2012 film), directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, which had the working title Blackbird
- The Black Bird, a 1975 film starring George Segal
- The Blackbird, a 1926 film directed by Tod Browning
Literature
- 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
Music
Musical 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
- 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"
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
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
Science and technology
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
Vehicles
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
See also
- Blackbeard (c. 1680–1718), English pirate
- Blackbirding, a recruitment practice utilizing trickery or kidnapping
- Bluebird (disambiguation)
- Redbird (disambiguation)
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