bluebird The bluebirds are a North American group of medium-sized, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the order of Passerines in the genus ''Sialia'' of the thrush family (Turdidae). Bluebirds are one of the few thrush genera in the Americas. ...

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 Bluebird Photoplays (Bluebird Photoplays of New York, Inc. and Bluebird Photoplays of New England, Inc.) was an American film production company that filmed at Universal Pictures studios in California and New Jersey, and distributed its films via ...

, American film production company and a subsidiary of Universal Pictures

Comics

Bluebird (Marvel Comics) Bluebird (Sally Avril), sometimes rendered Blue Bird, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is usually depicted as a supporting character in the Spider-Man series. Publication history Created ...

, 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, link=no, 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 The Boo Radleys are an English alternative rock band who were associated with the shoegazing and Britpop movements in the 1990s. They originally formed in Wallasey, England in 1988, with Rob Harrison on drums, singer/ guitarist Simon "Sice" Ro ...

*"Bluebird", by Beach House from ''

Depression Cherry ''Depression Cherry'' is the fifth studio album by the American dream pop duo Beach House. It was co-produced by the group and Chris Coady, and was released on August 28, 2015, by Sub Pop in the US, Bella Union in Europe, Mistletone Records in Aus ...

'' *"Bluebird", by Christina Perri from ''

Lovestrong ''Lovestrong'' (stylized as ''lovestrong.'') is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Christina Perri. Following the release of Perri's lead single "Jar of Hearts" and a record deal with Atlantic Records, ''Lovestrong'' was relea ...

'' *"Bluebird", by Dawn Landes from ''

Bluebird The bluebirds are a North American group of medium-sized, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the order of Passerines in the genus ''Sialia'' of the thrush family (Turdidae). Bluebirds are one of the few thrush genera in the Americas. ...

'', 2014 *"Bluebird", by Electric Light Orchestra from ''

Secret Messages ''Secret Messages'' is the tenth studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1983 on Jet Records. It was the last ELO album with bass guitarist Kelly Groucutt, conductor Louis Clark and a full orchestra, and the last ELO album t ...

'' *"Bluebird", by Helen Reddy from '' No Way to Treat a Lady'' *"Bluebird", by Ikimono-gakari from ''

My Song Your Song ''My Song Your Song'' is the third studio album by Ikimono-gakari, released in Japan on December 24, 2008. The song, "Blue Bird", was known for the third opening sequence in ''Naruto: Shippuden''. Track listing Oricon Chart (Japan) External l ...

'' *"Bluebird", by Jim White from ''

Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See ''Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See'' is an album by Jim White (guitarist), Jim White, released in 2004. The co-vocals on "Static on the Radio" are by Aimee Mann. The opening track of the album, "Static on the Radio," was us ...

'' *"Bluebird", by Katie Noonan from ''

Skin Skin is the layer of usually soft, flexible outer tissue covering the body of a vertebrate animal, with three main functions: protection, regulation, and sensation. Other cuticle, animal coverings, such as the arthropod exoskeleton, have diffe ...

'' *"Bluebird", by Little Big Town from '' Nightfall'' *"Bluebird", by Sara Bareilles from ''

Kaleidoscope Heart ''Kaleidoscope Heart'' is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, which was released on September 7, 2010 through Epic Records. The lead single from the album, "King of Anything", was released digitally on May 10, 2010 ...

'' *"Bluebird", by Spencer Krug from ''

Beast Moans ''Beast Moans'' is the debut album by Canadian indie rock supergroup Swan Lake, released in November 2006 on the label Jagjaguwar. It was recorded at Dead Wood Studios in Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia as well as at a house in Victoria, Britis ...

'' *"Bluebirds", by Adam Green from '' Friends of Mine'' *'' The Blue Bird'', a partsong by

Charles Villiers Stanford Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (30 September 1852 – 29 March 1924) was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic music, Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was ed ...

*"Blue Bird", by Cassie Steele from ''

How Much for Happy ''How Much for Happy'' is Canadian actress and singer-songwriter Cassie Steele's debut album. ''How Much for Happy'' was released in Canada on March 15, 2005, and in the US on April 26, 2005. The album was sold on iTunes in the US for a few mont ...

'' *"Blue Bird", by

Kobukuro , a Japanese band, formed in 1998 and made its major label debut in 2001. The name is a portmanteau of the two family names, Kentarō Kobuchi and Shunsuke Kuroda. Members * * The band's visual appearance is unusual; there are only two people, ...

*"Bluebird", by Something for Kate from '' The Modern Medieval'', 2020

Businesses

In arts and entertainment

Bluebird Cafe The bluebirds are a North American group of medium-sized, mostly insectivorous or omnivorous birds in the order of Passerines in the genus ''Sialia'' of the thrush family (Turdidae). Bluebirds are one of the few thrush genera in the Americas. ...

, 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 The Blue Bird Café fire was a nightclub fire on September 1, 1972, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In all, 37 people were killed as a result of arson. The fire was the worst in Montreal since 1927, when 77 people perished in the Laurier Palace The ...

Blue Bird Inn The Blue Bird Inn, at 5021 Tireman, was a jazz night club in Detroit presenting music every night except Monday. An African American owned venue, by the end of the 1940s it was the most important live outlet for bop in the city. Thad Jones' comp ...

, a jazz club in Detroit *

Bluebird Records Bluebird Records is a record label best known for its low-cost releases, primarily of kids' music, blues and jazz in the 1930s and 1940s. It was founded in 1932 as a lower-priced RCA Victor subsidiary label of RCA Victor. Bluebird became known ...

, a subsidiary label of

RCA Records RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also A ...

Bluebird Toys Bluebird Toys plc was a British toy company. They are responsible for the Polly Pocket brand, Havok wargame and Disney Tiny Collection. Previous toy lines include Manta Force, Oh Penny, the British version of Oh Jenny from Matchbox Toys, Mig ...

, a British toy company

In transportation

Bluebird Airways Bluebird Airways is an airline with its head office on the property of Heraklion International Airport in Heraklion, Greece. History Bluebird Airways is a Greek airline, established in 2008 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece and is mainly involved i ...

, a Greek airline * Bluebird Aviation, a Kenyan charter airline *

Blue Bird Aviation Blue Bird Aviation is a charter airline based in Khartoum, Sudan. It operates fixed-wing charter services as well as VIP, corporate shuttle, ground handling and aircraft maintenance services. Its main base is Khartoum International Airport K ...

, a Sudanese charter airline * Bluebird Cargo, a cargo airline based in Reykjavík, Iceland * Bluebird Nordic, an Icelandic cargo airline *

Bluebird Bus and Coach Bluebird Bus & Coach was a bus operator based in Greengate in Chadderton, Greater Manchester between July 1988 and March 2013. History Bluebird Bus & Coach was formed in July 1988 when Tom Dunstan, a former Greater Manchester PTE area manage ...

, a bus operator in Greater Manchester, England * Blue Bird Coach Lines, now a part of

Coach USA Coach USA, LLC is a holding company for various American transportation service providers providing scheduled intercity bus service, local and commuter bus transit, city sightseeing, tour, yellow school bus, and charter bus service across the Un ...

Blue Bird Corporation The Blue Bird Corporation (originally known as the Blue Bird Body Company) is an American bus manufacturer headquartered in Fort Valley, Georgia. Best known for its production of school buses, the company has also manufactured a wide variety o ...

, an American manufacturer of buses and large passenger vehicles *

Blue Bird Group Blue Bird Group (branded as Bluebird) is an Indonesian transportation company based in Jakarta. Established in 1972, the company is known for its Blue Bird taxicab service as well as other transportation services. History Blue Bird Group wa ...

, an Indonesian transportation company *

Bluebird Rail Operations Rail First Asset Management (RailFirst), formerly known as CFCL Australia (CFCLA), is an Australian rolling stock leasing company operating in the rail freight market. It leases assets to a number of private rail operators in the local rail indus ...

, railway rolling stock manufacturer in Australia * Bluebird Vehicles, a former British

minibus A minibus, microbus, minicoach, or commuter (in Zimbabwe) is a passenger-carrying motor vehicle that is designed to carry more people than a multi-purpose vehicle or minivan, but fewer people than a full-size bus. In the United Kingdom, th ...

manufacturer *

Stagecoach Bluebird Stagecoach Bluebird (also known by its legal operating name Bluebird Buses Ltd, and formerly Northern Scottish Omnibuses Ltd) is a Scottish bus company which operates bus services in the areas of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray. It is a su ...

, a bus operator in Scotland

In the food industry

* Blue Bird Bakeries, a brand name of

Flowers Foods Flowers Foods, headquartered in Thomasville, Georgia, is a producer and marketer of packed bakery food. The company operates 47 bakeries producing bread, buns, rolls, snack cakes, pastries, and tortillas. Flowers Foods' products are sold regi ...

Bluebird Foods Bluebird Foods Ltd is a New Zealand division of the United States, U.S.-based PepsiCo corporation, that manufactures snack foods, cereals and muesli bars. All snacks are manufactured at the Bluebird Foods factory in Wiri, New Zealand, Wiri, Auc ...

, a New Zealand division of the U.S. based PepsiCo corporation *

Bluebird Garage Bluebird Chelsea, at 330–350 King's Road, Chelsea, London, is a Grade II-listed building that is now a noted D&D London restaurant and café, but which had its origins as a noted Art Deco garage complex built for the Bluebird Motor Company, w ...

, a restaurant in London, formerly a racing garage

Other businesses

bluebird bio bluebird bio, Inc., based in Somerville, Massachusetts, is a biotechnology company that develops gene therapies for severe genetic disorders. The company's only - in the European Union (EU) - approved drug is betibeglogene autotemcel (Zyntegl ...

, a biotechnology firm *

Bluebird Gold Mine The Bluebird Gold Mine is a gold mine located 15 km south-south-west of Meekatharra, Western Australia. The mine is owned by Westgold Resources Limited, a company formed in November 2016 from the demerger of the gold assets of Metals X Li ...

, 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) Bluebird (2 April 1984 – 14 May 2005) was an American-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He fetched $1.1 million as a yearling and spent his racing career in Europe. He showed promise as a juvenile in Ireland in 1986 wh ...

, a Thoroughbred racehorse * A nickname for a member of

Barrow A.F.C. Barrow Association Football Club is a professional football club based in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. The club plays in EFL League Two, the fourth tier of the English league system. Since 1909, Barrow have played their home games at H ...

* A nickname for a member of

Cardiff City F.C. Cardiff City Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd) is a professional association football club based in Cardiff, Wales. It competes in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1899 as R ...

* A nickname for a member of

Chippenham Town F.C. Chippenham Town Football Club is a semi-professional football club club based in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England. They are currently members of and play their games at Hardenhuish Park. History The club states it was established in 1873,

Transportation

* ''Blue Bird'' (train), a passenger train operated by the Wabash Railroad *

Bluebird Compartment Car (New York City Subway car) The Bluebird, formally dubbed Compartment Car by its purchaser, the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation (BMT), was an advanced design PCC streetcar-derived subway and elevated railway car built by the Clark Equipment Company from 1938 to 19 ...

Blackburn Bluebird The Blackburn L.1 Bluebird was a British single-engine biplane light trainer/tourer with side-by-side seating, built in small numbers by Blackburn Aircraft in the 1920s. Design and development The Bluebird L.1 was initially designed as a co ...

, a British aircraft *

Nissan Bluebird The is a compact car with a model name introduced in 1957. It has been Nissan's most internationally recognized sedan, in multiple body styles, and is known for its dependability and durability. The Bluebird originated from Nissan's first vehic ...

, 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) The R33S (also known as R33 World's Fair or R33WF) was a New York City Subway car that was built by St. Louis Car Company in 1963 for the IRT A Division. They were purchased for service on the IRT Flushing Line ( 7 and trains), which was th ...

R36 World's Fair (New York City Subway car) The R36 was a New York City Subway car model built by the St. Louis Car Company from 1963 to 1964. The cars are a "follow-up" or supplemental stock to the A Division's R33s, which some of the cars closely resemble. A total of 424 cars were bu ...

South Australian Railways Bluebird railcar The Bluebird railcars were a class of self-propelled diesel-hydraulic railcar built by the South Australian Railways' Islington Railway Workshops between 1954 and 1959. History The Bluebird railcars were built to provide modern air-condition ...

Other uses

* , various US Navy vessels *

List of Bluebird record-breaking vehicles ''Blue Bird'' or ''Bluebird'' is the name of various cars and boats used by Sir Malcolm Campbell, his son Donald and other family members to set land and water speed records. Origins of the name The name ''Blue Bird'' was originally inspired b ...

used by Sir Malcolm Campbell and other family members to set speed records *

Bluebirds (Australian nurses) The "Bluebirds" were a group of twenty Australian civilian nurses and a masseuse who volunteered for service in France during World War I. Recruited through the Australian Red Cross Society, the group's nickname referred to the colours of their spe ...

, a group of Australian civilian nurses who served in French hospitals during World War I *

Blue bird (cocktail) The Blue bird is a gin or vodka cocktail with blue curacao. ''The Savoy Cocktail Book'' gives the recipe as gin with Angostura bitters and curacao. Another recipe from the '' Café Royal Cocktail Book'' (1937) uses vodka instead of gin, adding m ...

, a cocktail made with gin * Bluebird by

American Express American Express Company (Amex) is an American multinational corporation specialized in payment card services headquartered at 200 Vesey Street in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. The company was found ...

, a prepaid debit card * Blue Birds, youngest members of the

Camp Fire Girls Camp Fire, formerly Camp Fire USA and originally Camp Fire Girls of America, is a co-ed youth development organization. Camp Fire was the first nonsectarian, multicultural organization for girls in America. It is gender inclusive, and its prog ...

Project BLUEBIRD Project ARTICHOKE (also referred to as Operation ARTICHOKE) was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) project that researched interrogation methods. Preceded by Project BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE officially arose on August 20, 1951 and was operated by the ...

, a CIA project researching methods of interrogation * Bluebird, a character in the ''Adventure Time'' episode "

Ketchup Ketchup or catsup is a table condiment with a sweet and tangy flavor. The unmodified term ("ketchup") now typically refers to tomato ketchup, although early recipes used egg whites, mushrooms, oysters, grapes, mussels, or walnuts, among other ...