Big Bird (Fictitious character)

<p>Big Bird is a Muppet character created by Jim Henson for the long-running children's television show Sesame Street. An eight-foot two-inch (249 cm) tall bright yellow anthropomorphic bird,[6][7] he can roller skate, ice skate, dance, swim, sing, write poetry, draw, and ride a unicycle. Despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as one long word (from the song called "ABC-DEF-GHI," pronounced /æbkədɛfgi:dʒɛkəlmɪnɒpkwɜrstu:vwɪksɪz/), pondering what it could mean. He would refer to grocer Mr. Hooper as "Mr. Looper", among other mispronunciations. He lives in a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone and right next to Oscar the Grouch's trash can and he has a teddy bear named Radar. In Season 46, Big Bird's large nest is now sitting within a small, furnished maple tree, and is no longer hidden by used construction doors.</p>

<p>Caroll Spinney originally performed Big Bird from 1969 to 2018. Matt Vogel began as an understudy in 1998 before becoming the character's full-time performer in 2018.</p>

<p>In 2000, Big Bird was named a Living Legend by the United States Library of Congress.[8]</p>