Shrike (disambiguation)

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A shrike is a passerine bird of the family Laniidae. Other birds include:

• Helmetshrike (Prionopidae), an African family closely related to the true shrikes
• Bushshrike (Malaconotidae), another African family, also formerly considered true shrikes
• Cuckoo-shrike (Campephagidae), a widespread Old-World family
• Shrike-tyrants, a genus of tyrant-flycatchers
• Shrikebills, a genus of monarch-flycatcher.

Shrike may also refer to:

• 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 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 Shrike, experimental aircraft by Bell Corporation
• AGM-45 Shrike, an American anti-radiation missile designed to home in on hostile antiaircraft radars
• Shrike (Philip Reeve), a recurring character in Philip Reeve's Hungry City Chronicles novel series
• The Shrike, an enemy in Brute Force (video game)
• A creature in Sacrifice (computer game)
• Shrike, a character in Nathanael West's novella Miss Lonelyhearts
• Shrike, one of the robot bodies in the video game Custom Robo
• Shrike, a starfighter in the PC game Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
• Shrike, a character in the computer game Red Faction II
• Shrike-class is a class of space ship in David Weber's Honorverse science fiction novel series

[edit] See also

• Shrike Scout Fighter in the video game Tribes 2
• Shrike Commander, an Aero Commander aircraft