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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
Shriketit (Falcunculidae), birds in the genus Falcunculus
Shrike-tyrant (Agriornis ), a South American genus of tyrant-flycatchers
Woodshrike (Vangidae), birds in the genus
Tephrodornis
Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen ), the true piping shrike
Bornean bristlehead (Pityriasidae), also known as the bristled shrike or bald-headed wood-shrike
Magpie-lark (Grallina cyanoleuca ), an Australian tyrant-flycatcher mistaken for the
piping shrike
Military
Entertainment
In fiction
Shrike (comics) , the codename of a series of DC comics characters
The Shrike, a monster in the
Hyperion Cantos science fiction book series
The Shrike, a character in the 1973 novel
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by English writer B. S. Johnson
The Shrike, an enemy in the video game
Brute Force
Shrike, a character in Nathanael West's novella
Miss Lonelyhearts
Shrike, a character in the computer game
Red Faction II
Shrike, a character in the 2018 film
Mortal Engines
Shrike, the nickname of the monster Renfri in the short story The Lesser Evil by Andrzej Sapkowski, from his
The Witcher series
Lionel Shrike, a character in the films
Now You See Me and
Now You See Me 2
The Shrike, a
character in the Marvel Television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
The Shrykes, a sapient, birdlike species in the
Edge Chronicles book series
The Minnesota Shrike, the nickname of the fictional serial killer Garret Jacob Hobbs in the
Hannibal (TV series)
Blood Shrike, the title of the Emperor's second in command in Sabaa Tahir's An Ember in the Ashes novel series
Shrikes, the second generation light attack craft in the
Honor Harrington science fiction series by
David Weber
An animal in the 1979 book series The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann, and the subsequently televised British-French
animated series by the same name
A heavily armed enemy vessel in the
3rd season of the Paramount+ television series
Star Trek: Picard .
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