Shrike (disambiguation)

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 (disambiguation), 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

Characters

Other entertainment

  • The Shrike (play), a 1952 Pulitzer Prize–winning drama by Joseph Kramm
  • The Shrike (film), a 1955 film based on the play
  • "Shrike", a song by Irish musician Hozier from the 2018 album Nina Cried Power

Other uses

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

See also

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