If you grew up watching American Sesame Street, this is probably what you think of when it comes to Big Bird:
However, Twitter was recently abuzz with the revelation that Big Bird ain't so yellow in other countries:
Well colour me shooketh at this revelation.
And now Big Bird himself has confirmed: The rumors are true!!!
I heard my friends on Twitter were asking about my cousins around the world! It’s true, I have a lot of bird cousins in different countries. Here’s a little bit about them:
Side note: Anyone else find it low-key hilarious that Big Bird is verified on Twitter? Just me? Ahkay.
Heck, there's apparently even a whole bit of Wikipedia dedicated to 'em:
There's his Mexican cousin:
This is Abelardo, he’s from Mexico. We reunited in California last summer during my road trip!
His Dutch cousin:
This is Pino, he lives in The Netherlands. He’s a few years younger than me, but we’re the same height!
His Turkish cousin:
Meet cousin Minik Kuş! He’s from Turkey, but he's no turkey himself! He's a canary bird just like me.
His Portuguese cousin:
This is Poupas from Portugal. I haven’t seen him in a long time. If anyone sees him let him know Big Bird says hi!
Disappointed he's not a Portu-geese...I'll see myself out.
And his Brazilian cousin:
This is Garibaldo from Brazil! He may look scary, but he’s one of the nicest birds I know!
It's safe to say that people were pretty into it:
the revelation of big bird's multinational cousins is sending me and this is now an Abelardo stan account
I would 100% watch a @Netflix show in which Big Bird travels the world to visit all his cousins.
I love that whoever’s running the official Big Bird account felt they had to acknowledge how terrifying the Brazilian Big Bird looks https://t.co/VJ3oHSxNDl
Well, TIL!
Thanks for learning about my family! It’s fun having cousins all around the world! 💛