This molded plastic Big Bird finger puppet is one of a set of licensed Sesame Street toys made in the 1980s to capitalize on the popularity of the children’s television series, especially its Muppet ...

Sometimes he stood 8 feet, 2 inches tall. Sometimes he lived in a garbage can. He often cited numbers and letters of the alphabet, and for nearly a half century on “Sesame Street” he was Big Bird and ...

Woodstock may be the name of the bird in the “Peanuts” comic strip, but the big bird in Woodstock, Connecticut is Caroll Spinney. Spinney was the gentle, expressive puppeteer who embodied Big Bird on ...

Danny Seagren, the puppeteer who portrayed Big Bird and TV’s first live-action Spider-Man on ‘The Electric Company,’ has died at 81, his family announced.