Aves paseriformes que forman la familia Laniidae. Son conocidos por sus hábitos de cazar insectos, pequeñas aves, reptiles o mamíferos y empalar sus cuerpos en tallos espinosos.
çekim: çoğul alcaudones
köken: From Andalusian Arabic القَبْطُون (*al-qabṭún), from Arabic قُبْطان (qubṭān).
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 百 (“hundred”) and 聲 (“sound, voice”). Semantically, compare Japanese 百舌 (mozu, “shrike”), where both the actual etymology and the consequent spelling contain an element meaning "hundred". Compare also Chinese 伯勞 /伯劳 (bóláo, “shrike”), where the first element can be read in Sino-Vietnamese as bách (aside from the more common bá).