Shrike (disambiguation)

Shrike (disambiguation)

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
* Shrike (racing car), an Australian open-wheel racing car
* 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)"
* 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 ""
* 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

ee also

* Shrike Scout Fighter in the video game "Tribes 2"
* Shrike Commander, an Aero Commander aircraft
* United States Navy Strike Fighter Squadron 94, known as "The Mighty Shrikes"


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