Word "SHRIKE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
any of numerous Old World birds having a strong hooked bill that feed on smaller animals

Crossword Clues for SHRIKE

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Bird also known as a butcherbird (6) The Guardian Weekend 23 Aug 2025
"Butcher bird" is an informal name for many kinds of ____ The Times Specialist Sunday 11 May 2025
Predatory bird with great grey and red-backed species The Times Specialist 31 Mar 2025
Risk he has wrongly taken to get the bird (6)
Songbird's piercing scream when its tail is twisted
Bird which, because of its habit of impaling its victims on thorns, is often called the butcher bird (6)
Bird that impales prey on thorns for later consumption The Times Specialist Sunday 12 Jan 2025
Bird with a strongly-hooked, hawk-like bill, which, because of its habit of impaling its victims on thorns, is often called the butcher bird (6)
Bird sighted at first on trek across river (6)
Bird giving a shriek? (6)
Bird disturbed by hikers (6)
Songbird also called a butcherbird Mirror Quiz 07 Dec 2024
Bird leading hikers astray
Hikers discover a bird (6)
Hikers disturbed the bird (6)
Butcherbird makes us scream, turning tail The Times Quick Cryptic 03 Aug 2024
Bird's piercing call with a final inversion
Butcher bird
Bird also called a butcherbird Wall Street Journal 11 Feb 2023
Carnivorous bird scattered hikers
Flier getting hit, needing hospital for short time
Predatory songbird The Times Concise 27 May 2020
Bird's awkward shriek 
Shriek out at the bird Irish Times Simplex 07 Jan 2019
Hook-billed bird Thomas Joseph 25 Sep 2018
Bird's piercing cry, tail twitching
Screeching bird Wall Street Journal 14 Nov 2017
Songbird with a hooked bill Wall Street Journal 28 Oct 2017
Bird with a shrill call Newsday 28 Sep 2017
Female drinking blackcurrant drink back
Hikers disturbed songbird The Times Cryptic 01 Apr 2016
Bird has harsh cry on moving note right to the end The Times Cryptic 01 Mar 2016
Predatory bird Newsday 27 Dec 2015
Hikers disturbed bird
Predatory bird
Bird's alarmed reaction after rear's tweaked
Hooked-bill bird
Bird that impales its prey on thorns
Harsh-sounding bird that immobilizes its prey by impalement
Butcherbird or woodchat
Predatory bird
Predatory bird
Hook-billed bird
Butcherbird
Butcherbird
Avian predator
Oscine bird
Butcherbird
Bird that impales its prey on thorns
Pulitzer bird of 1952
Bird in a play title.
The butcherbird.
Pulitzer prize play (with "The").
"The ___," Pulitzer prize play.
1952 Pulitzer play, with "The"
Butcherbird.
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