Bird

# Bird (Harry Potter)

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> “Oppugno!” came a shriek from the doorway. Harry spun around to see Hermione pointing her wand at Ron, her expression wild: The little flock of birds was speeding like a hail of fat golden bullets toward Ron, who yelped and covered his face with his hands, but the birds attacked, pecking and clawing at every bit of flesh they could reach.
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> Hermione Granger using the Oppugno Jinx to weaponise a flock of conjured birds, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

**Birds** (class: *Aves*) are feathered, beaked, winged, bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying, vertebrate animals. With around 10,000 living species, they are the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates.

***Ornithology*** was the scientific study of birds; the Hogwarts Library had texts on his subject. Someone with an irrational fear of birds was known as ornithophobic; ***Mrs Mason*** suffered from this phobia.

## Birds in the wizarding world

Birds existed both in the wizarding world and the ***Muggle world***, however the owl was the most common kind in the wizarding world, both as pets and ***means of communication***.

***Bird entrails*** could be used in a form of divination. ***Ornithomancy*** was a branch of divination which involved reading omens from the actions of birds.

There also exist many magical varieties of birds, such as phoenixes. There existed spells both to ***transform objects into birds***, as well as ***conjuring them out of thin air***. ***Bird-watching*** was a hobby that both ***Muggles*** and wizardkind partook in.

## Magical varieties of birds

* Phoenix
* Diricawl
* Fwooper
* Golden Snidget
* Fire-breathing chicken

## Non-magical varieties of birds

* Buzzard
* Chicken
* Crow
* Duck
* Eagle
* Falcon
* Goshawk
* Hawk
* Heron
* Hornbill
* Hummingbird
* Magpie
* Nightjar
* Owl
* Parrot
* Peacock
* Penguin
* Pheasant
* Pigeon
* Raven
* Robin
* Rook
* Sparrow
* Sparrowhawk
* Swan
* Swift
* Tropical bird
* Vulture

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## Notes and references

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