Yardbird Explained

Yardbird or Yardbirds may refer to:

People

• A slang term for a basic trainee in the armed forces
• A slang term for a prisoner or convict
• Charlie Parker, American saxophonist
• George Yardley, American basketball player

Animals

• A colloquialism for the domestic chicken in the American Deep South

Science and industry

• Railyard, sections of parallel train tracks, where many rail cars are
• Yardbird Southern Table & Bar, a chain of restaurants serving food from the Southern United States

Music and literature

• Yardbird Reader, journal edited by Ishmael Reed from 1972 to 1976
• The Yardbirds, a British psychedelic band
  • Roger the Engineer, album originally self-titled as Yardbirds