Big Bird is a character on the children's television show
Sesame Street. Officially performed by
Caroll Spinney since 1969, he is an eight-foot two-inch (249 cm) tall bright primrose-yellow bird. He can
roller skate,
ice skate,
dance, swim,
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 (from the song called "
ABC-DEF-GHI," pronounced /æbkədefgi:dʒekəlmɪnɒpkɔ:rstu:vwɪksɪz/), pondering what it could ever mean. He lives in a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone and has a teddy bear named Radar.