White Bird

White Bird may refer to:

  • The White Bird, a French biplane which disappeared while attempting a transatlantic crossing in 1927
  • White Bird, Idaho, small city in the United States
  • White Bird (Native American leader) (d. 1892), Nez Perce leader
  • White Bird Hill Summit, a mountain grade and mountain pass on U.S. Highway 95 in North Central Idaho
  • Battle of White Bird Canyon, 1877 battle in Idaho
Music and entertainment
  • The Little White Bird, 1902 novel by J. M. Barrie, which contained the first appearance of the Peter Pan character
  • White Bird with Black Mark, 1970 Ukrainian film
  • "White Bird", 1969 song by the Incredible String Band, on their album Changing Horses
  • "White Bird", 1969 song by the San Francisco band It's a Beautiful Day, from the album It's a Beautiful Day
  • "White Bird", 1983 episode of the American television series Knight Rider, which used the version of the song from It's a Beautiful Day
Other uses
  • White Bird of Paradise, also known as Strelitzia nicolai, a South African flower
  • Church of the White Bird, Christian church in Rhodesia

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or bird:

    “The dancers crowded about him
    And many a sweet thing said,
    And a young man brought him red wine
    And a young girl white bread.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “but as an Eagle
    His cloudless thunderbolted on thir heads.
    So vertue giv’n for lost,
    Deprest, and overthrown, as seem’d,
    Like that self-begott’n bird
    In the Arabian woods embost,
    That no second knows nor third,
    And lay e’re while a Holocaust,
    From out her ashie womb now teem’d
    Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most
    When most unactive deem’d,
    And though her body die, her fame survives,
    A secular bird ages of lives.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)