1) Bird disturbed by hikers 2) Bird with a shrill call 3) Butcherbird 4) Butcherbird or woodchat 5) DC Comics martial artist 6) Fictional assassin 7) Hooked-bill bird 8) Oscine 9) Oscine bird 10) Predatory bird 11) Pulitzer bird of 1952
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1) Butcherbird
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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 are also known as `butcher birds` because of their feeding habits. They are fairly closely related to the bush-s...
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[racing car] Shrike is a racing car developed in Australia by the students of the Croydon Park Institute of TAFE in Adelaide 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 tim...
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• (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and ...
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family name Laniidae, any of about 64 species of medium-sized predatory birds (order Passeriformes); in particular, any of the 25 species of the ... [1 related articles]
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<ornithology> Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. Borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc, and often impale them on thorns, ...
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Shrike noun [ Akin to Icelandic
skrīkja a shrieker, the shrike, and English
shriek ; confer Anglo-Saxon
scrīc a thrush. See
Shriek ,
intransitive verb ]
(Zoology) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family
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AGM-45 antiradiation missile.
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The Shrikes (Lanidae) are a Passerine family of small birds of the Dentirostres tribe, with varying characters, but often with compressed, hooked, serrated bills suitable for seizing and tearing the small birds and animals they feed on.
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The USS Shrike is an American Osprey Class mine hunter. The Osprey Class ships are the world's largest glass reinforced plastic (GRP) ships and are the first United States Navy ships designed solely for mine hunting. The technique used to locate mines is by high definition sonar and the mines are neutralised with a remotely controlled underwater ve...
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n] - any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals
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noun any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals
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Bird of the family Laniidae, of which there are over 70 species, living mostly in Africa, but also in Eurasia and North America. They often impale insects and small vertebrates on thorns. They can grow to 35 cm/14 in long, have grey, black, or brown plumage, sharply clawed feet, and hooked beaks
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