After a brief foot pursuit Monday morning, "Big Bird" was taken into custody on the Far West Side. Big Bird, an emu, was taken back to its home around 9:50 a.m. Monday. Emus are the second-tallest ...

Even though he’ll be 6 years old forever, Sesame Street’s favorite yellow bird is technically turning 55 on March 20. Big Bird, an 8-foot, 2-inch, flightless-bird that may or may not be a canary, made ...

Even though he’ll be 6 forever, Sesame Street’s favorite yellow bird is technically turning 55 on March 20. Big Bird, an 8-foot, 2-inch, flightless-bird that may or may not be a canary, made his way ...

There’s a lot going on right now. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, here’s a diversion: Big Bird in a Hitchcock movie set to an Outkast song. The latest viral video from the Bell Bros., a mashup duo from ...

The mini-storm over Mitt Romney, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Big Bird pitted two visions of the show’s finances against one another. Mitt Romney claimed he’d cut funding so that ...

“Uh oh! Does anyone know how to make me big Big Bird again?” the official Twitter/X account of Sesame Street’s Big Bird posted on January 24. Thus began Big Bird’s own Metamorphosis, in which the ...