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Rainbird, Rain Bird or Rainbirds may refer to:
Birds
- Rainbird, colloquial name given to various birds thought to sing before rain, including the European green woodpecker, Jamaican lizard 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
People
- 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
Other
- Rainbird (software company), software label owned by Telecomsoft and Microprose
- Rain bird, irrigation supplies manufacturer
- Rain Bird, irrigation supplies manufacturer
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