Snowbird

Snowbird is a colloquial name for birds whose arrival is associated with early winter snow; it has most often been applied in Britain to snow bunting Plectrophenax nivalis and in North America to dark-eyed junco Junco hyemalis.

Snowbird may also refer to:

Places

• Snowbird, Utah, an unincorporated area and associated ski resort in the United States
• Snowbird Lake, a lake in the Northwest Territories, Canada
• Snowbird Glacier, a hanging alpine glacier in the Talkeetna Mountains of Alaska, United States
• Snowbird Mountain, a crest on the Appalachian Trail east of Del Rio, Tennessee, United States

People

• Snowbird (person), someone from Canada or the northern United States who spends winter in warmer climates of the southern United States

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• The Snowbird, a 1916 silent movie

Fictional characters

• Snowbird (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Snowbird, a penguin puppet who announces school closures on WSMV-TV in Nashville, Tennessee

Music

• Snowbird (band), a band featuring Simon Raymonde and Stephanie Dosen
• "Snowbird" (song), recorded by Anne Murray in 1970
  • Snowbird (album), 1970
• "Snowbird", a song by Janis Ian from her 1969 album Who Really Cares
• "Snowbirds", a 2023 song by Cory Marks

Other uses

• Snow Bird, an N-class blimp
• Snowbirds (aerobatic team), a Canadian air show flight demonstration team
• Snowbird (sailboat), an Olympic sailboat during the 1932 Summer Olympics
• Snowbird Airlines, a charter airline in Finland
• Snowbird Mountain Lodge, an historic hotel property in rural Graham County, North Carolina, United States
• Snowbird Tectonic Zone (STZ) is a geological structure in the western Canadian Shield
• UTIAS Snowbird, a human-powered ornithopter built at University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Canada