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)