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Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight

Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight is Travis Scott's second studio album, released September 2, 2016 on Grand Hustle/Epic; it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, was certified platinum, and spawned "Goosebumps" and "Pick Up the Phone."

Birds of a Feather (Billie Eilish song)

"BIRDS OF A FEATHER" is a 2024 Billie Eilish song from HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, written with Finneas O'Connell. An album track that became the most streamed song of 2024, reaching number 2 in the UK and US and a 2025 Grammy nomination.

Birds of a Feather (TV series)

Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran about two sisters living together while their husbands serve prison terms for armed robbery.

Birds of Passage

Birds of Passage (Pájaros de verano), 2018 crime epic by Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego about a Wayuu family destroyed by Colombia's 1970s marijuana boom; Cannes Directors' Fortnight opener, Oscar shortlist.

Birds of Prey (2020 film)

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), 2020 DCEU film directed by Cathy Yan, written by Christina Hodson, starring Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn; released February 7, 2020, R-rated, 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, $84.1M US gross.

Birds of Prey (team)

Birds of Prey is DC Comics' premier all-female superhero team, created by Gorfinkel, Pittarese, and Dixon, first appearing in Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey #1 (1995/1996), built around Oracle, Black Canary, and Huntress, with notable runs by Gail Simone and Kelly Thompson.

Birds of Prey (TV series)

Birds of Prey (2002-2003) was a short-lived American WB live-action superhero series developed by Laeta Kalogridis, loosely based on the DC Comics team, starring Ashley Scott, Dina Meyer, and Rachel Skarsten; one season of 13 episodes, canceled after ratings fell from a 7.6-million-viewer premiere.

Birds Without a Nest

Birds Without a Nest (Aves sin nido) is an 1889 novel by the Peruvian writer Clorinda Matto de Turner, generally treated as the first indigenista novel of Latin America.

Birdsong (novel)

Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks's 1993 Hutchinson/Vintage novel, second of his French trilogy: Stephen Wraysford's Amiens affair and Somme experiences, decoded by granddaughter Elizabeth; over three million copies sold, BBC Two 2012 adaptation.

Birdy (film)

Birdy (1984) is Alan Parker's drama based on William Wharton's novel, starring Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage as Vietnam veterans; it won the 1985 Cannes Jury's Special Grand Prix.

Birdy (singer)

Birdy is the stage name of Jasmine van den Bogaerde (born 1996), English singer-songwriter from Lymington, Hampshire; broke through at 14 covering Bon Iver's Skinny Love, then released five albums including Fire Within, Beautiful Lies, Young Heart, and Portraits.

Biren De

Biren De (বীরেন দে, 1926–2011) was an Indian Bengali painter known for the Neo-Tantric style he developed in the 1960s, blending geometric abstraction with Tantric symbols.

Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya

Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1924–1997) was an Indian writer in Assamese, the first Assamese author to receive the Jnanpith Award, given in 1979 for his novel Mrityunjay.

Biretta

Biretta (beretta, biretum): stiff square cap with three or four ridges worn by Catholic clergy, cardinals in red, bishops violet, priests black; ancestor of the academic mortarboard.

Birger Sjöberg

Birger Sjöberg (1885–1929) was a Swedish poet, songwriter, and journalist whose popular Frida songs and modernist collection Kriser och kransar (1926) helped lay the groundwork for Swedish modernism.

Birgit Nilsson

Birgit Nilsson (Märta Birgit Nilsson, 1918–2005), Swedish dramatic soprano famed as the era's leading Wagner interpreter (Isolde, Brünnhilde), also Strauss and Puccini; namesake of the $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize and Svenstad museum.

Birgitta Trotzig

Birgitta Trotzig (1929–2011) was a Swedish author and literary critic, regarded as a leading twentieth-century Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy from 1993.

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen

Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (born 1982, Hillerød) is a Danish actress best known as journalist Katrine Fønsmark in Borgen (2010–2022), with roles in Marie Krøyer, Game of Thrones, Pitch Perfect 2, Vinyl, and Broadway's Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

Birgundi Baker

Birgundi Angel Baker (born 1992, Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American actress, singer, and dancer, a Howard University musical theatre graduate, known for Kiesha Williams on The Chi and films including Praise This and Block Party.

Birha

Birha, also spelled Biraha (बिरहा), is a narrative Bhojpuri folk-song tradition of North India centered on viraha, the longing of separation, shaped in the 19th century around Varanasi by Bihari Lal Yadav.

Biri Marung

"Biri Marung" is a 2024 amapiano single by South African producers Mr Pilato, Ego Slimflow, and Tebogo G Mashego, featuring Sje Konka, Focalistic, and DJ Maphorisa.

Birinchi Kumar Barua

Birinchi Kumar Barua (বিৰিঞ্চি কুমাৰ বৰুৱা) was an Assamese scholar and folklorist who wrote fiction as Bina Barua and won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Folklore of Assam in 1961.

Biriyaani (ബിരിയാണി)

Biriyaani (ബിരിയാണി) is a 2020 Malayalam drama directed and written by Sajin Baabu, starring Kani Kusruti as Khadeeja, a woman ostracized after her brother joins ISIS. It won the NETPAC Best Film award, a National Film Award Special Mention, and Best Actress honors for Kusruti.

Biriyani (பிரியாணி) (film)

Biriyani (பிரியாணி) is a 2013 Tamil action comedy thriller by Venkat Prabhu, starring Karthi, Hansika Motwani, and Premgi Amaren; two friends hunting biryani after a party are framed for a businessman's disappearance. Yuvan Shankar Raja's 100th film, released 20 December 2013.

Birju Maharaj (बिरजू महाराज)

Pandit Birju Maharaj (बिरजू महाराज, born Brijmohan Nath Mishra, 1938–2022) was the leading Kathak dancer of the Lucknow (Kalka-Bindadin) gharana, longtime head of Delhi's Kathak Kendra, founder of Kalashram, and winner of the Padma Vibhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and a 2012 National Film Award.

Birkin bag

Birkin bag, Hermès Birkin, structured French luxury handbag created in 1984 for Jane Birkin with Jean-Louis Dumas; handmade by one artisan in 18+ hours, sells above retail on resale, prototype sold for $10.1 million in 2025.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (BMAG), Chamberlain Square, Birmingham, England: municipal art museum opened 28 November 1885 by the Prince of Wales, holding the world's finest Pre-Raphaelite collection, distinct from the Alabama museum of similar name.

Birra Moretti

Birra Moretti, founded in 1859 in Udine by Luigi Moretti, is an Italian lager brand, also called L'Autentica; bottom-fermented 4.6% ABV beer with a 1942 moustached-man label, owned by Heineken since 1996.

Birria

Birria: slow-cooked Jalisco, Mexico stew of goat (traditionally) or beef in a dried-chile adobo, served with consomé; distinct from pit-steamed barbacoa; Tijuana beef birria and quesabirria tacos went viral in the U.S. after 2018.

Birth (2004 film)

Birth is a 2004 drama film directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Nicole Kidman as a widow convinced a 10-year-old boy is her dead husband reborn.