title: Bird of paradise
text: # Bird of paradise
  
  Bird of paradise may refer to:
  
  ## Plants
  
  * Strelitzia, bird of paradise flower or plant, a genus of perennial plants
  * Erythrostemon gilliesii, or bird of paradise, a shrub
  * Caesalpinia pulcherrima, or Mexican bird of paradise, a shrub
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  ### Literature
  
  * The Bird of Paradise (play), a 1912 play by Richard Walton Tully
  * The Birds of Paradise, a 1962 novel by Paul Scott
  
  ### Film and television
  
  * Bird of Paradise (1932 film), based on Tully's play
  * Bird of Paradise (1951 film), a colour film, based on Tully's play
  * Birds of Paradise (2008 film), a Ukrainian film
  * Birds of Paradise (2010 film), an Argentine-American computer-animated film
  * Birds of Paradise (2021 film), an American film
  * "Bird of Paradise", an episode of Godzilla, 1998
  * "Birds of Paradise", an episode of Natural World, 2010
  * "Birds of Paradise", an episode of Twice in a Lifetime, 2000
  * "Bird of Paradise", an episode of Xiaolin Showdown, 2005
  
  ### Music
  
  * Birds of Paradise (musical), a 1987 Off-Broadway musical
  * "Bird of Paradise" (Snowy White song), 1983
  * "Bird of Paradise", a song by the Appleseed Cast from the 2001 album Low Level Owl, Vol. 1
  * "Bird of Paradise", a song by Charlie Parker
  * "Birds of Paradise", a song by Peter, Sue and Marc
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Bird of Paradise (aircraft), a 1927 American military airplane
  * Bird of Paradise Island, or Little Tobago, part of Trinidad and Tobago, named for the imported Paradisaea apoda
  