Shrike (disambiguation)
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A shrike
is a passerine bird of the family Laniidae. Other birds include:
Shrike may also refer to:
Shrike
Shrikes are passerine birds of the family Laniidae. The family is composed of thirty-one species in three genera. The family name, and that of the largest genus, Lanius, is derived from the Latin word for "butcher", and some shrikes were also known as "butcher birds" because of their feeding habits...
is a passerine bird of the family Laniidae. Other birds include:
- HelmetshrikeHelmetshrikeThe helmetshrikes are smallish passerine bird species. These birds were included with the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, later on split between several presumably closely related groups such as bushshrikes and cuckoo-shrikes , but are now considered sufficiently distinctive to be separated...
(Prionopidae), an African family closely related to the true shrikes - BushshrikeBushshrikeThe bushshrikes are smallish passerine bird species. They were formerly classed with the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, but are now considered sufficiently distinctive to be separated from that group as the family Malaconotidae....
(Malaconotidae), another African family, also formerly considered true shrikes - Cuckoo-shrikeCuckoo-shrikeThe cuckooshrikes and allies in the Campephagidae family are small to medium-sized passerine bird species found in the subtropical and tropical Africa, Asia and Australasia...
(Campephagidae), a widespread Old-World family - Shrike-tyrantShrike-tyrantThe shrike-tyrants, Agriornis, are a genus of bird in the tyrant-flycatcher family . The members of this genus are found in open habitats in western and southern South America, usually at high elevations. They are large and heavy billed by tyrant-flycatcher standards, and include the largest...
s, a genus of tyrant-flycatchers - ShrikebillShrikebillThe shrikebills are the monarch flycatcher genus Clytorhynchus. The four to six species have long laterally compressed bills similar to true shrikes that give them their names...
s, a genus of monarch-flycatcher.
Shrike may also refer to:
- The Shrike (play)The Shrike (play)The Shrike is a play written by American dramatist Joseph Kramm. It debuted on Broadway at the Cort Theater, on January 15, 1952, with Jose Ferrer as the producer, director and star...
, a 1952 Pulitzer Prize winning drama by Joseph Kramm - The Shrike (film)The Shrike (film)The Shrike is a 1955 film based on the Joseph Kramm's play, The Shrike. José Ferrer directed and starred in Ketti Frings' screenplay adaptation.-Characters and story:...
, a 1955 film based on the play - Shrike (comics)Shrike (comics)Shrike is the name of multiple fictional characters appearing in publications from DC Comics.-Toron Tos:Toron Tos was a super-powered orphan from the highly advanced planet Moronon in the distant Mizar system where everyone has wings who was raised on Earth by Comoc Indians who believed he was a...
, the codename of a series of DC comics characters - The ShrikeThe ShrikeThe Shrike is a character from Dan Simmons' Hyperion universe, set far in humanity's future.The Shrike appears in all of the Hyperion books and is something of an enigma; its true purpose isn't 'revealed' until the second book, but even then it is left a malleable purpose. In fact, this explanation...
, a terrifying monster and anti-hero of the Hyperion Cantos book series - Shrike 5.56, a belt-fed machine gun conversion kit
- Curtiss Shrike, several American combat aircraft of the 1930's
- X-9 ShrikeX-9 ShrikeThe Bell Aircraft Corporation X-9 Shrike was a prototype surface-to-air, liquid-fueled guided missile that was a testbed for the nuclear-armed GAM-63 RASCAL. It is named after the bird shrike....
, experimental aircraft by Bell Corporation - AGM-45 ShrikeAGM-45 ShrikeAGM-45 Shrike is an American anti-radiation missile designed to home in on hostile antiaircraft radars. The Shrike was developed by the Naval Weapons Center at China Lake in 1963 by mating a seeker head to the rocket body of an AIM-7 Sparrow. It was phased out by U.S...
, an American anti-radiation missile designed to home in on hostile antiaircraft radars - SHRIKE Mk IV Exploder, device used to activate electric detonation-systems
- Shrike (Philip Reeve)Shrike (Philip Reeve)Shrike is a recurring character in Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet and Fever Crumb Series. He appears in all the books except Predator's Gold and A Web of Air....
, a recurring character in Philip Reeve's Mortal EnginesMortal EnginesMortal Engines is the first of four novels in Philip Reeve's quartet of the same name, which is also known as the Hungry City Chronicles in the United States...
/Hungry City Chronicles novel series - Shrike (racing car)Shrike (racing car)Shrike is a racing car developed in Australia by the Croydon Park Institute of TAFE in 1988 and 1989. It was developed for the then new Formula Holden category which mandated an aluminium tub monocoque, powered by a Buick sourced 3.8 litre Holden V6 engine, as used in the Holden Commodore at that...
, an Australian open-wheel racing car - The Shrike, a character in Christie Malry's Own Double-EntryChristie Malry's Own Double-EntryChristie Malry's Own Double-Entry is the penultimate novel by the late British avant-garde novelist B. S. Johnson. It is the metafictional account of a disaffected young man, Christie Malry, who applies the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to his own life, "crediting" himself against society...
(1973), a novel by experimental English writer, B. S. JohnsonB. S. JohnsonB. S. Johnson was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic, producer of television programmes and film-maker.-Biography:...
. - The Shrike, an enemy in Brute Force (video game)Brute Force (video game)Brute Force is a video game released for the Xbox by Microsoft in 2003. The game is a squad-based third-person shooter that uses four members of a team which fight in numerous battles. These members in the squad include Flint, a sniper, Brutus, a shock trooper, Tex, a heavy assault trooper, and...
- A creature in Sacrifice (computer game)Sacrifice (computer game)Sacrifice is a video game published by Interplay Entertainment in 2000 for the Windows 98 platform. Developed by Shiny Entertainment, it is a real-time strategy game, featuring elements of action and other genres. Players control wizards who fight each other with spells and summoned creatures...
- Shrike, a character in Nathanael West's novella Miss LonelyheartsMiss LonelyheartsMiss Lonelyhearts, published in 1933, is Nathanael West's second novel. It is an Expressionist black comedy set in New York City during the Great Depression.-Plot summary:...
- Shrike, one of the robot bodies in the video game Custom RoboCustom Robois a science fiction robotic fighting video game franchise developed by NOISE and published by Nintendo Co., Ltd..The series currently spans five games, and has titles on the Nintendo 64, Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo DS...
- Shrike, a starfighter in the PC game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the SithStar Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the SithStar Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith is an expansion pack for the first person shooter Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. It was developed and published by LucasArts, and released on January 31, 1998. The expansion includes a single-player mode and fifteen multiplayer maps. The...
- Shrike, a character in the computer game Red Faction IIRed Faction IIRed Faction II is a first-person shooter video game developed by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ on October 15, 2002 for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox and Microsoft Windows...
- Shrike-class is a class of space ship in David Weber's HonorverseHonorverseThe Honorverse refers to the military science fiction book series and sub-series created by David Weber and published by Baen Books. The series is set primarily after Honor Harrington's October 1, 3961, birth; although she is the protagonist in most of the stories, more recent entries make only...
science fiction novel series
See also
- Shrike Scout Fighter in the video game Tribes 2
- Shrike Commander, an Aero Commander aircraft
- United States Navy Strike Fighter Squadron 94VFA-94Strike Fighter Squadron 94 , also known as the "Mighty Shrikes", are a United States Navy F/A-18C Hornet fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Station Lemoore. Currently a land-based "Unit Deployment Program" squadron, they deploy with no tail code assigned...
, known as "The Mighty Shrikes"