Big Bird - Eight-feet tall Muppet canary with yellow feathers, yellow beak, and orange legs bedecked with red rings seen on the children's program SESAME STREET/PBS/1969+. Big Bird (Carroll Spinney, the human puppeteer inside the costume) lives at 123 and 1/2 Sesame Street. His best friends are an elephant-like creature called Snuffelupagus and an oversized dog named Barkley.

Popular throughout the world, Big Bird is known by many names and colors. In France on I, RUE SESAME Big Bird is known as Toccata, a green furry bird with a red beak and bushy black eyebrows. In Mexico, Big Bird is called Paco, a white furry singing parrot, wearing a serape on PLAZO Se'SAMO. And in Spain on BARRIO SESAMO, Big Bird is Caponata, a female bird with big eyelashes, striped legs and foam feathers of red, yellow and orange.

Big Bird's birthday is March 20th. He was officially four years old until 1991 when he turned six. Little Bird, another character on the program, celebrates his birthday on December 17th.

Big Bird also appeared on the TV special Big Bird in China; cameos in The Muppet Movie (1979); and starred in Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird (1985). See also DEATH - "Mr. Hooper" 

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Barkley - Large brown and white shaggy muppet dog first seen in 1978 on the children's program SESAME STREET/PBS/1969+. Barkley was the pet dog of Linda Bove, the deaf librarian working in the magical neighborhood of Sesame Street. Another Barkley, a Jack Russell Terrier appeared on the sitcom FULL HOUSE/ABC/1987-95 and in the feature film Clean Slate (1994) starring Dana Carvey. 

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Snuffleupagus - A large shaggy brown elephant-like creature that debuted in 1971 on the children's program SESAME STREET/PBS/1969+. For many years adults on Sesame Street believed that Aloysius Snuffleupagus was the imaginary friend of Big Bird. In 1985, however, Snuffleupagus was seen by everybody for the first time. Snuffleupagus also had a sister named Alice who debuted in 1987.