Birdy Explained

Birdy or Birdie may refer to:

Places in the United States

• Birdie, Georgia, an unincorporated community
• Birdie, Mississippi, an unincorporated community

People with the name

• Birdie (given name)
• Birdy (singer) (born 1996), the stage name of English singer-songwriter Jasmine van den Bogaerde
• Henry Robertson Bowers (1883–1912), nicknamed "Birdie", participant in Robert Falcon Scott's doomed race to the South Pole
• Byrd Spilman Dewey (1856–1942), nicknamed "Birdie", American author and land investor
• Birdy Sweeney (1931–1999), Irish actor and comedian
• Jack Ward (1553–1622), nicknamed "Birdy", notorious English pirate and Barbary Corsair
• Birdy, pseudonym of a former guitarist of the glam punk band Trashcan Darlings

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Birdie (Street Fighter), in Capcom's video games
• Betty Draper, on Mad Men, whom Don Draper affectionately refers to as "Birdie"
• Birdie the Early Bird, the first identifiably female McDonaldland character
• Birdy (character), a Marvel Comics villain
• Birdy, in the Conker platform video game series
• Birdy, also known as Torii, a robotic pet in Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny
• Birdy, the title character of Birdy the Mighty, a Japanese manga series
• Wang Po-Te in Your Name Engraved Herein goes by the name Birdy, named after the character in the movie of the same name
• Birdie Anders, the younger sister of the Anders family in the Six Minutes podcast

Music

• Birdy (Birdy album) (2011)
• Birdy (Peter Gabriel album), 1985 soundtrack of the film Birdy
• Birdy, an album by Bloodthirsty Butchers
• "Birdie", a song by Avril Lavigne from the album Head Above Water
• "Birdy", a song by British Sea Power from the single "Remember Me"

Other

• Birdie (novel), by Tracey Lindberg
• Birdy (novel), by William Wharton
• Birdie (film), starring Maeve Dermody and Sam Parsonson, and directed by Shelly Lauman
• Birdy (film), starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, and directed by Alan Parker, based on Wharton's novel

Brands and enterprises

• Birdy (bicycle), a folding bicycle
• Birdy Airlines (2002–2004), a defunct airline based in Belgium

Sports

• Birdie (golf), a score of one under par on a hole in golf
• A gun dog that gets excited by birds
• Shuttlecock, in badminton

Other uses

• Birdie, the common nickname for a small parabolic aluminized reflector light
• Birdy, unwanted artifacts that occur in noise reduction or in "frequency mixing".
• BIRDIE, Martin AN/GSG-5 Battery Integration and Radar Display Equipment