Shrike (disambiguation)

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A shrike is a passerine bird of the family Laniidae.

Shrike may also refer to:

Birds

Other passerine birds known as shrikes:

• Helmetshrike (Prionopidae), an African family closely related to the true shrikes
• Bushshrike (Malaconotidae), another African family, also formerly considered true shrikes
• Cuckooshrike (Campephagidae), a widespread Old-World family
• Shrikebill (Clytorhynchus), an Australasian genus of monarch-flycatcher
• Shrike-tyrant (Agriornis), a South American genus of tyrant-flycatchers
• Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen), the true piping shrike
• Magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca), an Australian tyrant-flycatcher mistaken for the piping shrike

Military

• Curtiss Shrike, several American combat aircraft of the 1930s
• USS Shrike, two US Navy ships
• Bell X-9 Shrike, a prototype surface-to-air guided missile
• AGM-45 Shrike, an American anti-radiation missile designed to home in on hostile antiaircraft radars
• RNAS Maydown, also known as HMS Shrike, a former Royal Navy Naval Air Station
• Ares Shrike 5.56, a belt-fed machine gun conversion kit

Entertainment

• The Shrike (play), a 1952 Pulitzer Prize–winning drama by Joseph Kramm
• The Shrike (film), a 1955 film based on the play
• Shrike (comics), the codename of a series of DC comics characters
• The Shrike, a monster in the Hyperion Cantos science fiction book series
• Shrike (Philip Reeve), a recurring character in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines/Hungry City Chronicles novel series
• TB-81 Shrike, a medium bomber from the video game Wing Commander: Prophecy
• The Shrike, a character in Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (1973), a novel by experimental English writer B. S. Johnson
• The Shrike, an enemy in Brute Force (video game)
• Shrike, a character in Nathanael West's novella Miss Lonelyhearts
• Shrike, a character in the computer game Red Faction II
• Shrike Scout Fighter, in the video game Tribes 2
• The Shrike Abyssal, a star system in the Mass Effect series.
• Lionel Shrike, a character in the films Now You See Me and Now You See Me 2
• "The Shrike", a poem written by Sylvia Plath in 1956

Other uses

• Shrike (racing car), an Australian open-wheel racing car

See also

• Shrike Commander, an Aero Commander aircraft
• United States Navy Strike Fighter Squadron 94, known as "The Mighty Shrikes"
• Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger ("shrike"), a German World War II fighter aircraft