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
- 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:
- South Australian Railways Bluebird railcar
Other uses
- USS Bluebird, various US Navy vessels
- List of Bluebird record-breaking vehicles used by Sir Malcolm Campbell and other family members 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)