Just so that I don't loose it somehow in that way I have:
more reasons that Magpie, aka Pied at some point, has a very appropriate name:
pied-a-terre \pee-ay-duh-TAIR; pyay-dah-TAIR\, noun:
A temporary or second place of lodging.
from
dictionary.com Man, you know you named them well when associations you didn't even think of come up.
(Pied was once a magpie, and through various events finds himself stuck in a human body from an errant magician's spell.)