"It's a plump-bodied, fluffy feathered, flightless bird, and is remarkable for its method of escaping danger. It can vanish in a puff of feathers and reappear elsewhere. Muggles were once fully aware of the existence of the Diricawl, though they knew it by the name of "dodo." Muggles didn't know they could vanish so they believed they hunted them into extinction."