What is "snowbird"

Junco \Jun"co\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species of North American finches; -- called also snowbird, or blue snowbird.

also snow-bird, from 1680s in reference to various types of birds associated with snow, from snow (n.) + bird (n.1). From 1923 in reference to northern U.S. workers who went to the South in the winter months to work; by 1979 in reference to tourists.

n. 1 A bird, ''Junco hyemalis'', the dark-eyed junco. 2 A bird seen primarily in the winter time. 3 The snow bunting (''Plectrophenax nivalis''). 4 A person, usually one who is retired, who travels from a cold climate to a warmer one in the winter. 5 (context slang English) A cocaine user.

1. n. medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter [syn: fieldfare, Turdus pilaris]

2. white arctic bunting [syn: snow bunting, snowflake, Plectrophenax nivalis]

3. small North American finch seen chiefly in winter [syn: junco]

Snowbird may refer to:

• Snowbird, a common name for the Dark-eyed junco (Junco hyemalis)
• "Snowbird" (song), recorded by Anne Murray in 1970
• Snowbird (person), someone from Canada or the northern United States who spends winter in warmer climates of the southern United States
• Snowbird (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Snowbird (sailboat), an Olympic sailboat during the 1932 Olympics
• Snowbird, Utah, an unincorporated area and associated ski resort
• Snowbird (band), a band featuring Simon Raymonde and Stephanie Dosen
• Snowbirds, Canadian air show flight demonstration team
• Snowbird Airlines, a charter airline in Finland
• "Snowbirds and Townies", a song from the album The Moon Is Down by Further Seems Forever
• UTIAS Snowbird, a human-powered ornithopter built at University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies

A snowbird is a term often associated with people who move from the higher latitudes and colder climates of the northern United States and Canada and migrate southward in winter to warmer locales such as Florida, California, Hawaii, Arizona, Texas, or elsewhere along the Sun Belt of the southern and southwestern United States, Mexico, and areas of the Caribbean.

Snowbird is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

"Snowbird" is a song by the Canadian songwriter Gene MacLellan. Though it has been recorded by many performers (including Bing Crosby and Elvis Presley), it is best known through Anne Murray's 1969 recording, which—after appearing as an album track in mid-1969—was eventually released as a single in the summer of 1970. It was a No. 2 hit on Canada's pop chart and went to No. 1 on both the Canadian adult contemporary and country charts. The song reached No. 8 on the U.S. pop singles chart, spent six weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. adult contemporary chart, and became a surprise Top 10 U.S. country hit as well. It was certified as a gold single by the RIAA, the first American Gold record ever awarded to a Canadian solo female artist. The song peaked at No. 23 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2003 it was an inaugural song inductee of the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Anne Murray and Gene MacLellan had met while both were regulars on the CBC television series Singalong Jubilee and Murray recorded two of MacLellan's compositions, "Snowbird" and "Biding My Time", for her first major label album release, This Way Is My Way, in 1969. Murray would recall: "Gene told me he wrote ["Snowbird"] in twenty minutes while walking on a beach in PEI."

The theme and approach broadly resemble that of the earlier hits " Message to Michael" (a.k.a. "Kentucky Bluebird" in hit versions by Lou Johnson and Adam Faith) and "Yellow Bird" in contrasting the narrator's being stranded in the place of his/her heartache to the bird's ability to just up and fly away. "Snowbird" sold well over a million copies and was recently picked as 19th on the 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version list, a partially populist approach to defining the most influential songs by Canadians.

Gene MacLellan made his own recording of "Snowbird" on his 1970 album Street Corner Preacher: MacLellan's version features an additional verse to the song's standard two verse format.

In 2007 Anne Murray remade "Snowbird" for her Anne Murray Duets: Friends & Legends album, the song being rendered as a duet with Sarah Brightman.

Snowbird is a compilation album by Anne Murray issued in 1970 on Capitol Records. The album was released as the first Anne Murray album available in the United States and consists of songs previously included on This Way Is My Way and Honey, Wheat and Laughter. The photo and graphic design of the album cover are a reworking of the artwork on Honey, Wheat and Laughter. The album peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and number 41 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart.

In the early 1920s, a local yachtsman who was searching for a suitable small boat for his young sons, came across a set of plans to scale in the 1921 issue of Rudder magazine. He had a local builder, Tom Broadway, build several boats and the class became immediately popular. In 1926, G.V. Johnson began building the boats. In 1928, the National Snowbird Yacht Racing Association was formed. thumb

Snowbird is a band consisting of former Cocteau Twins instrumentalist Simon Raymonde, also the founder of the London-based label Bella Union, and vocalist Stephanie Dosen. Dosen, originally a member of the 1990s techno band Virus, sang live with Massive Attack in 2008 and later collaborated with The Chemical Brothers. Dosen and Raymonde first worked together on her second solo album, A Lily for the Spectre, released by Bella Union in 2007. The duo's debut album as Snowbird, Moon, was released on 27 January 2014 on Bella Union.