Big Bird: Yellow, But Not Chicken

Big Bird is a Muppet character featured on the children's television show Sesame Street which airs on PBS. He is sometimes referred to as "Bird" by his friends.YouTube - Sesame Street - Mr. Snuffleupagus sees the adults

Officially performed by Caroll Spinney since 1969, he is an eight-foot two-inch tall bright yellow bird.Shalom M. Fisch, Lewis Bernstein, "Formative Research Revealed: Methodological and Process Issues in Formative Research". In Shalom M. Fisch, Rosemarie T. Truglio (eds.), "G" is for "Growing": Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000. ISBN 0805833943. Pp 39?40. He can roller skate, ice skate, dance, sing, write poetry, draw and even ride a unicycle. But despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as one big long word (ABC-DEF-GHI), pondering what it could ever mean.See ABC-DEF-GHI. He lives in a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone and he has a teddy bear named Radar, after Walter "Radar" O'Reilly of M*A*S*H, who had a teddy bear and was also lovably naive and innocent. Radar was given to Big Bird by Gary Burghoff when he guest starred on the show.Sesame Family Newsletter, Sesame Workshop, 15 March 2006. Accessed 19 June 2008.Gary Burghoff - Biography, Internet Movie Database. Accessed 19 June 2008. Later on, however, it was said that Big Bird got the bear as a gift from Mr. Hooper.