NEW YORK (Reuters) - Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who brought boyish vulnerability to Big Bird, the towering yellow-plumed character, during 50 years on the groundbreaking children's television show ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...