What type of bird is Big Bird?

Question

This question came to mind in a conversation I was having with a friend... is Big bird a chicken, a canary what???

Answer 1

He looks like a  chicken

Answer 2

I think he is a fictional species of bird.I mean he IS a puppet after all.Though he could be a canary/ostrich.Sesame Street is weird!

Answer 3

I think the the puppet was intended to resemble a canary (he he he hahahaahhho!) Here is some info I just found on the web!

Big Bird is a full-body Muppet, featured on the children's television show Sesame Street, which airs on PBS. He is sometimes referred to as "Bird" by his friends.[2]

Officially performed by Carroll Spinney since 1969, he is an eight-foot two-inch tall bright yellow canary.[3] 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, pondering what it could ever mean.[4] He lives in a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone and he has a teddy bear named Radar, which is a nod to Walter "Radar" O'Reilly of M*A*S*H, who had a teddy bear and was also lovably naive and innocent. Also, Radar was given to Big Bird by Gary Burghoff (who played Radar on M*A*S*H) when he guest starred on the show.[5][6] Later on, however, it was said that Big Bird got the bear as a gift from Mr. Hooper.[ citation needed ]

Answer 4

I want to say a cannery like tweedy bird  

Answer 5

he is a chicken/duck the scientists mixed  dna together again lol

Answer 6

I kinda thought he looked liked a duck hah guess im wrong :D

Answer 7

Big Bird is a yellow bird about 8 foot two inches tall, who lives in a huge nest on Sesame St

He Is a GOLDEN CONDOR==He revealed  this years ago on

Mr Rogers "Neighborhood" .................