Bluebird (disambiguation)

A bluebird is one of several species in the songbird genus Sialia.

Bluebird or blue bird may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Literature & Theatre

• "The Blue Bird" (fairy tale), by Madame d'Aulnoy, published in 1697
• The Blue Bird (play), a 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck
• Bluebird Photoplays, American film production company and a subsidiary of Universal Pictures

Comics

• Bluebird (Marvel Comics), a supporting character in Marvel Comics' Spider-Man series
• Bluebird (DC Comics), a supporting character in DC Comics' Batman series

Film and TV

• The Blue Bird (1910 film), a British silent film starring Pauline Gilmer and Olive Walter
• The Blue Bird (1918 film), an American silent film directed by Maurice Tourneur
• The Blue Bird (1940 film), an American fantasy film
• The Blue Bird (1976 film), a joint Soviet-American production directed by George Cukor
• Bluebird (2004 film), a Dutch television film directed by Mijke de Jong
• Blue Bird (2011 film), a Belgian drama film
• Bluebird (2013 film), an American film directed by Lance Edmands
• Bluebirds (TV series), a TV series by the BBC

Music

Groups

• Sinyaya Ptitsa (Russian: Синяя птица, The Blue Bird), a Soviet music group, vocal and instrumental ensemble (VIA)

Albums

• Bluebird (Hank Jones album), 1956
• Bluebird (Emmylou Harris album), 1989
• Bluebird (Dawn Landes album), 2014
• Blue Bird (Charles Mingus album), 1970
• Blue Bird (EP), a 2013 extended play by Shouta Aoi
• Bluebird (James Last album), 1982

Songs

• "Bluebird" (Buffalo Springfield song), 1967
• "Bluebird" (Paul McCartney song), 1973
• "Bluebird" (Anne Murray song), 1990
• "Blue Bird" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), 2006
• "Blue Bird" (Korean folk song)
• "Blue Bird" (Russian folk song)
• "Bluebird" (Miranda Lambert song), 2019
• "Bluebird", by The Boo Radleys
• "Bluebird", by Beach House from Depression Cherry
• "Bluebird", by Christina Perri from Lovestrong
• "Bluebird", by Dawn Landes from Bluebird, 2014
• "Bluebird", by Electric Light Orchestra from Secret Messages
• "Bluebird", by Helen Reddy from No Way to Treat a Lady
• "Bluebird", by Ikimono-gakari from My Song Your Song
• "Bluebird", by Jim White from Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See
• "Bluebird", by Katie Noonan from Skin
• "Bluebird", by Little Big Town from Nightfall
• "Bluebird", by Sara Bareilles from Kaleidoscope Heart
• "Bluebird", by Spencer Krug from Beast Moans
• "Bluebirds", by Adam Green from Friends of Mine
• The Blue Bird, a partsong by Charles Villiers Stanford
• "Blue Bird", by Cassie Steele from How Much for Happy
• "Blue Bird", by Kobukuro
• "Bluebird", by Something for Kate from The Modern Medieval, 2020

Businesses

In arts and entertainment

• Bluebird Cafe, a music club in Nashville, Tennessee
• Blue Bird Café, a nightclub in Montreal, Canada, where a 1972 arson-caused fire claimed 37 lives - see Blue Bird Café fire
• Blue Bird Inn, a jazz club in Detroit
• Bluebird Records, a subsidiary label of RCA Records
• Bluebird Toys, a British toy company

In transportation

• Bluebird Airways, a Greek airline
• Bluebird Aviation, a Kenyan charter airline
• Blue Bird Aviation, a Sudanese charter airline
• Bluebird Cargo, a cargo airline based in Reykjavík, Iceland
• Bluebird Nordic, an Icelandic cargo airline
• Bluebird Bus and Coach, a bus operator in Greater Manchester, England
• Blue Bird Coach Lines, now a part of Coach USA
• Blue Bird Corporation, an American manufacturer of buses and large passenger vehicles
• Blue Bird Group, an Indonesian transportation company
• Bluebird Rail Operations, railway rolling stock manufacturer in Australia
• Bluebird Vehicles, a former British minibus manufacturer
• Stagecoach Bluebird, a bus operator in Scotland

In the food industry

• Blue Bird Bakeries, a brand name of Flowers Foods
• Bluebird Foods, a New Zealand division of the U.S. based PepsiCo corporation
• Bluebird Garage, a restaurant in London, formerly a racing garage

Other businesses

• bluebird bio, a biotechnology firm
• Bluebird Gold Mine, a gold mine in Western Australia

Geography

• Bluebird Creek, a stream in Iowa, United States
• Bluebird Gap, a gap in Georgia, United States

Sports

• Bluebird (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
• A nickname for a member of Barrow A.F.C.
• A nickname for a member of Cardiff City F.C.
• A nickname for a member of Chippenham Town F.C.

Transportation

For transportation companies, see #Businesses

• Blue Bird (train), a passenger train operated by the Wabash Railroad
• Bluebird Compartment Car (New York City Subway car)
• Blackburn Bluebird, a British aircraft
• Nissan Bluebird, a car manufactured by the Nissan Motor Company
• Nickname for two types of New York City subway cars in their original paint scheme:
  • R33 World's Fair (New York City Subway car)
  • R36 World's Fair (New York City Subway car)
• South Australian Railways Bluebird railcar

Other uses

• USS Bluebird, various US Navy vessels
• Bluebird record-breaking vehicles, a series of cars and boats used by Sir Malcolm Campbell and Donald Campbell, to set speed records
• Bluebirds (Australian nurses), a group of Australian civilian nurses who served in French hospitals during World War I
• Blue bird (cocktail), a cocktail made with gin
• Bluebird by American Express, a prepaid debit card
• Blue Birds, youngest members of the Camp Fire Girls
• Project BLUEBIRD, a CIA project researching methods of interrogation
• Bluebird, a character in the Adventure Time episode "Ketchup"
• Bluebird Movement, another name for the 2024 Taiwanese legislative reform protests

See also

• L'Oiseau bleu (disambiguation), French for "The Blue Bird"
• Bleubird, stage name of American rapper Jacques Bruna (born 1982)