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Constance Pickering: "Oh! Is this hornbill a pet, Professor?"
Professor McGonagall: "I used him as a teaching aid, miss Pickering. He was a good bird... but I've always been more partial to cats."
Constance Pickering and Professor McGonagall discussing this hornbill[src]

This hornbill was a pet male[2] bird owned by Professor Minerva McGonagall from 1992 or earlier.[1]

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COS Vera Verto demo

McGonagall using her bird to demonstrate Vera Verto

In 1992, Professor McGonagall used the bird to demonstrate the transforming spell, Vera Verto, in her second-year Transfiguration class.[1]

During the 2020s, this hornbill appeared as a Foundable during the Calamity. Members of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force returned the Foundable back to its original place the wizarding world.[2]

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