Big Bird is a fictional character from the children's television show Sesame Street. Described as an 8-foot-2-inch tall bright yellow anthropomorphic bird, Big Bird is often said to be a kind of canary, but his exact species is deliberately ambiguous and sometimes humorously given as different types by various sources. For example, Big Bird has called himself a "Golden Condor," a lark, and has been referred to as an ibis or a turkey in different contexts. Zoologist Mike Dickison suggested Big Bird might represent a unique species evolved from whooping cranes. It is well established that Big Bird is flightless. In summary, Big Bird does not correspond to any real bird species; rather, he is a large, friendly, flightless bird character with a childlike personality created for Sesame Street, representing a unique and imaginative bird species in the show's universe.