Redbird Explained

Redbird, Redbirds, Red Bird or Red Birds may refer to:

Bird

• Redbird, another name for the northern cardinal
• Redbird, another name for the summer tanager
• Red bird of paradise, a near threatened species

Mythological

• An East Asian variant of the phoenix
  • Vermilion Bird or Red Bird

People

• Red Bird (c. 1788–1828), Ho-Chunk chief
• Redbird Smith (1850–1918), Cherokee traditionalist
• Zitkála-ša (Red Bird, Gertrude Bonnin) (1876–1938), Yankton Dakota author
• Red Bird (baseball) (1890–1972), American baseball player
• Che-se-quah (Red Bird, Joan Hill) (1930–2020), Muscogee Creek-Cherokee artist

Place in the United States

• Redbird, Kentucky
• Redbird, Missouri
• Redbird, Nebraska
• Redbird, Oklahoma
• Redbird, New York
• Redbird, Dallas, a neighborhood in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, Texas
• Redbird, West Virginia
• Red Bird River, a tributary of the Kentucky River

Music

• Redbird (band), an American Americana/folk trio
• Redbird (John Zorn album), 1995
• Redbird (Heather Nova album), 2005
• Redbird (Redbird album), 2005
• Red Bird Records, a record label founded by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
• Redbird Records, an independent record label founded by Ludo

Popular culture

• Redbird (comics), the name of Robin's car from Batman comics, and one of the aliases of Damian Wayne
• Red Bird (web series), an American television Western web series
• Redbird, the mascot of De Pere High School in De Pere, Wisconsin
• Redbird, slang for a $5 casino chip
• Red Bird, the main character in Angry Birds
• The Red Bird (Astrid Lindgren book), book by Astrid Lindgren

Sports

• The Redbirds, nickname of the St. Louis Cardinals, a Major League Baseball team
• Memphis Redbirds, the Memphis class AAA minor league baseball team
• Louisville Redbirds, the former name of the Louisville Bats minor league baseball team
• Hamilton Redbirds, a defunct minor league baseball team that played from 1988 to 1992
• Glens Falls Redbirds, a defunct minor league baseball team that played in 1993
• Union Springs Redbirds, a defunct minor league baseball team that played from 1936 to 1938 in Alabama
• Columbus Red Birds, a defunct minor league baseball team that played from 1931 to 1954 in Ohio
• Columbus Red Birds (Georgia), a defunct minor league baseball team that played from 1909 to 1959 in Georgia, best known as the Columbus Foxes
• Raleigh Red Birds, a name used by some defunct minor league baseball teams in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Williamson Red Birds, a defunct minor league baseball team that played from 1939 to 1942
• Huntsville Red Birds, a defunct minor league baseball team that played in 1935 in Arkansas
• Geneva Red Birds, a defunct minor league baseball team that played in 1946 and 1950 in Alabama
• Illinois State Redbirds, athletic teams from Illinois State University

Other uses

• Redbird Flight Simulations, an American flight simulator manufacturer
• Redbirds, the 1960s New York City Subway cars that were painted in a deep red paint scheme.
• RedBird Capital Partners, an American investment management firm

See also

• • • Bird (disambiguation)
• Red (disambiguation)
• Phoenix (disambiguation)
• Firebird (disambiguation)