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What species is Big Bird from Sesame Street?

Question #110635. Asked by star_gazer.

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This is an issue of some debate.

A 1981 episode of the PBS television program “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” suggests otherwise. When Big Bird visited the Neighborhood of Make-Believe on the show, he told the character X the Owl he was a golden condor, a fictional bird species. Later in the episode, the character King Friday XIII asks Big Bird if he’s related to the cassowary. Big Bird tells the king he’s more like a condor.

The “conflict” over Big Bird’s species stems from two mediums: print and television. In his book “Sesame Street Unpaved: Scripts, Stories, Secrets, and Songs,” David Borgenicht lists Big Bird’s scientific name as Bigus canarius. The name would presumably translate into the pseudo-English phrase “Big canary.”

link http://www.birdchannel.com/bird-news/2008/07/09/big-bird-species.aspx


Nov 10 2009, 6:56 AM
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Happy Birthday Big Bird!

He is 40 years old today.

Nov 10 2009, 8:14 AM
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