What species of bird was Big Bird? I'm one generation before Sesame Street, and didn't have kids.nt

[raccoon]

[BrklynLiberal]

1. A REALLY BIG yellow canary

[DarkTirade]

2. The important question is: is it edible?

Because one or two of those could feed a poor village for weeks.

[CreekDog]

18. but if you teach them how to catch a bird

they can eat for a lifetime! :think:

[LeftinOH]

3. He's supposed to be a giant canary..but I think he most resembles

a Great Crested Grebe:


...which may the closest real-life bird there is

[flvegan]

4. Muppetus Gigantius

[MissMillie]

10. precisely

:thumbsup:

[Blue Diadem]

5. I always thought he was an Emu.

:shrug:

[Gormy Cuss]

6. He was the product of a brief liason between a chicken and a yeti.

[redqueen]

7. A baby chicken!

Srsly!

On edit, this kind:



Can't remember what kind it is... but when chickens are first hatched they have that yellow color cause of the yolk they've been eating... and so he's supposed to be a baby one of those. A giant one. :D

[auntAgonist]

8. well according to my son

Big Bird is a SHE.

A baby chicken.

When my son would talk about BB he'd call her a she. Never a he. :shrug:

aA

[redqueen]

9. Well Big Bird is voiced by a woman...

and I think it's a woman in the costume as well.

Plus "bird" is slang for woman in the UK. :P

[auntAgonist]

11. That would explain it

I edited because I read your post wrong :)

aA
kesha

[Deja Q]

14. And, if we were Filipino, "bird" would have an entirely different slang meaning...

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bird


:yoiks:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. Carroll Spinney's a man.

Although he may have retired, I don't know.

[redqueen]

17. Well why does he have a girl's name then?!

:blush:

OOPS!

:dunce:

All these years... I thought it was a lady in there. :rofl:

[Orrex]

16. Untrue on both counts! Shame on you and your disinformation campaign!

Here's what IMDB has to say about your malicious deception!

[raccoon]

12. Big Bird is female? I never knew that. I just assumed it was male. nt

[Deja Q]

13. Most birds are not dimorphic...

Which is for the best because I ain't lookin' for its willie...