https://t.co/LCHAMvhVHC, Meet cousin Minik Kuş! https://themysteriousworld.com/top-10-most-strange-looking-birds-in-the-world This is not the Sesame Street of our childhood. If some of these scary birds were just two to three times larger, we’d be in huge trouble. The shoebill's seven-inch beak is so strong it can pierce through a six-foot lungfish — and even kills baby crocodiles. Big Bird Just Introduced Twitter To His 'Scary' Brazilian Cousin Garibaldo—And We're Not OK; Big Bird Just Introduced Twitter To His 'Scary' Brazilian Cousin Garibaldo—And We're Not OK. comicsands.com - Mike Walsh • 20d. 5. As such, the different iterations have different versions of the characters. Screenshot: Sesame Workshop. They look tiny … There is a chance of a storm destroying someone's house or bed or whatever!". Shoebills feed on catfish, eels, lungfish, frogs, and more. In the past, this avian terror was referred to as the shoebill stork. But for every singing cockatiel with a cute Instagram, there’s a terrifying pelican that can crush a baby crocodile in one bite. This could be why, in the past few years, a curious genre of dark Big Bird memes has flourished. Restored puppet, currently displayed in the TV Cultura studios. The shoebill has an impressive eight-foot wingspan. On 2000 episodes of Sesame Street, a breathy synth chime tune with Big Bird's same dialogue, as everything else remained the same. He's a canary bird just like me. Bad Garibaldo. As for the shoebill's reproduction, it builds a nest on floating vegetation and typically lays one to three eggs at a time. He’s from Turkey, but he's no turkey himself! While not as enormous as that, the shoebill commands a ton of fear in the animal kingdom. The picture we got of him was....unflattering at best. Unfortunately, the shoebill has become a lucrative commodity on the black market, yielding up to $10,000 per specimen. Okay legit tho a bird big enough that it could bite your head off would be TERRIFYING — Sam Lena is GOOD (@LenaLuthorLover) October 13, 2018. me: what even is big bird dad: an abomination — linz (@wtmlindsey) April 16, 2016. Its beak resembles a Dutch clog sitting beneath a pair of enormous eyes that stare with prehistoric indifference. It sounded like somebody was wringing a duck's neck. Big Bird is a rare breed. Sesame Street is the kind of experience that all kids share. Close-Up of his face. Claim: Big Bird from "Sesame Street" has "cousins" around the world who are orange, blue, green, and yellow. It is their appearance that is the most horrifying, however. @BigBird Big Bird, I'm sorry, but Garibaldo looks like he sells orphans. And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Colloquially dubbed the "Death Pelican," shoebills have the third-longest bill of all birds behind storks and pelicans. Cookie Monster Buys a Rhyme. 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