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Otori (おおとり, Ōtori), also transliterated Ootori and Ohtori is a Japanese word meaning "large bird," "a key ... "large bird" or "big bird" 鴻, "Taiga bean ...
Big Bird in Japan is a television special by the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop), that aired on NHK General TV on November 3, 1988, [1] and on PBS on January 16, 1989. [2] It is the sequel to Big Bird in China which was also based on the popular television series Sesame Street .
Big Bird is a Muppet character designed by Jim Henson and built by Kermit Love for the children's television show Sesame Street.An eight-foot-two-inch-tall (249 cm) bright yellow anthropomorphic bird, [6] [7] he can roller skate, ice skate, dance, swim, sing, write poetry, draw, and ride a unicycle.
The first account contrasts the giant Peng bird with a small tiao (蜩 "cicada") and jiu (鳩 "pigeon; turtledove") and the third with a yan (鴳 or 鷃 "quail"). The Peng fish-bird transformation is not only the beginning myth in Zhuangzi, but Robert Allinson claims, "the central myth". [1] In the northern darkness there is a fish and his name ...
The Huma (Persian: هما, pronounced Homā, Avestan: Homāio), also Homa or Homay, [1] is a mythical bird of Iranian [2] [3] legends and fables, and continuing as a common motif in Sufi and Diwan poetry. Although there are many legends of the creature, common to all is that the bird is said never to alight on the ground, and instead to live ...
For a lone potoo, or a brooding adult with a potential predator close to the nest, the bird attempts to avoid detection by remaining motionless and relying on camouflage. If ineffective, the potoo breaks cover and attempts to intimidate the predator by opening its beak and eyes wide open while vocalizing or simply flies out of reach.
Big Bird from Sesame Street was close to being one of the casualties of the space shuttle Challenger. According to Caroll Spinney, the long-time puppeteer behind the costume, NASA had sent him a ...
Tereus himself is turned into an epops (6.674), translated as lapwing by Dryden [38] and lappewincke (lappewinge) by John Gower in his Confessio Amantis, [39] or hoopoe in A.S. Kline's translation. [40] The bird's crest indicates his royal status, and his long, sharp beak is a symbol of his violent nature.