Rainbird

Rainbird, Rain Bird or Rainbirds may refer to:

Birds

 * Rainbird, colloquial name given to various birds thought to sing or come before rain, including the European green woodpecker, Jamaican lizard cuckoo, Jacobin cuckoo, Pacific koel, channel-billed cuckoo, Burchell's coucal and black-faced cuckoo-shrike, as well as certain swifts whose movements are thought to signal the coming of rain
 * Rain Bird (legend), a Native American legendary animal
 * Shangyang (rainbird), in Chinese mythology

People

 * Bill Rainbird (1916–1997), New Zealand cricketer
 * George Rainbird (1905-1986), British publisher
 * Sam Rainbird (born 1992), Australian cricketer
 * Victor Noble Rainbird (1887–1936), British painter, stained glass artist and illustrator

Media

 * Rainbirds, 1980s German band centred on singer Katharina Franck
 * "Rainbirds", instrumental closing song from Tom Waits' 1983 album Swordfishtrombones
 * The Rainbird Pattern, 1972 novel by Victor Canning
 * "Rain Bird", 1980s song by Love and Rockets
 * The Rainbirds, 1968 novel by Janet Frame
 * " Rainbird ", song by Code Kunst , featuring Colde and Tablo

Other

 * Rainbird (software company), software label owned by Telecomsoft and Microprose
 * Rain Bird, irrigation supplies manufacturer
 * Rainbird (horse)