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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)

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