The word rainbird can mean more than one thing:Rainbird, a name given to various birds thought to sing before rain, such as the British green woodpecker, the Jamaican cuckoo, the Australian shrike,the Australian channel-bill and the Asian Koel. It's also applied to certain swifts, whose migration is thought to signal the coming of rain.Rainbird, an English Surname introduced by the Normans. The original Old French Rainbert is composed of the germanic elements ragin counsel and b