Bird (disambiguation)

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Other than the class of animals known as birds, the word bird may refer to more than one article:

Bird is a common surname:

• Harold "Dickie" Bird, English cricket umpire
• Henry Bird, English chess player
• John Bird, British actor and comedian
• John Bird, astronomer
• John Williston (Bud) Bird, Canadian politician
• Larry Bird, American basketball player

Other uses of Bird as a name

• Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, daughter of former President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson.
• Charlie Parker, American jazz musician, widely known under the nickname Bird.
  • Bird, a 1988 film about Charlie Parker.
• The Bird is a song by the band The Time.
• Bird McIntyre, Thai singer

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Gesture - the bird

• The "bird" is also a way of referring to the middle finger, when it is used offensively or rudely by doing this:

Because of the number of instances of this gesture in New York, some people have nominated this hand gesture as the official New York state bird.