Big Bird

Big Bird is a character on the children's television show Sesame Street. Performed by Matt Vogel since 1998 as an understudy to the late Caroll Spinney (who was the character from 1969 to 2018) before becoming its full-time performer in 2018, he is an eight-foot two-inch (249 cm) tall bright yellow anthropomorphic canary.[6][7] He can roller skate, ice skate, dance, swim, sing, write poetry, draw, and even ride a unicycle. Despite this wide array of talents, he is prone to frequent misunderstandings, on one occasion even singing the alphabet as one big long word (from the song called "ABC-DEF-GHI," pronounced /æbkədɛfgi:dʒɛkəlmɪnɒpkwɜrstu:vwɪksɪz/), pondering what it could mean. 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.