International Big Bird

Big Bird is perhaps the least used character in international Sesame Street adaptations.
Instead, most shows have their own walk-around Big Bird equivalent, often a bird like Caponata on Spain's Barrio Sésamo, Minik Kuş on Turkey's Susam Sokağı, Pino on the Dutch Sesamstraat, or Abelardo Montoya on Mexico's Plaza Sésamo. Since Big Bird is primarily a Street character, his few inserts are seldom used. Zhima Jie in China employs Big Bird's "identical cousin" Da Niao (literally, "Big Bird").
The following, however, are a few of the productions where the real Big Bird is dubbed and/or renamed.
Country/Show	Name 	Performer 	Picture
Brazil
Vila Sésamo (DVD)	Garibaldo 	Clécio Souto 	
Brazil
Muppets: O Filme	Garibaldo 	Alexandre Moreno 	
Brazil
Vila Sésamo (2007)
O Mundo de Elmo	Garibaldo 	Fernando Gomes 	
Brazil
Sésamo (2019)
Progama Silvio Santos
Os Melhores anos das nossas vidas	Garibaldo 	Falcon Mantovani 	
Brazil
Muppet Show (redub) (2021)	Garibaldo (Da Vila Sésamo) 	Sérgio Stern 	
Canada
Bonjour Sesame	Big Bird 	Benoit Marleau 	
Canada
Bonjour Sesame	L'Oiseau Géant 	Normand Frechette 	
Croatia
Ulica Sezam	Velika Ptica 	Aleksandar Cvjetković 	
Denmark
Glædelig Jul, Elmer	Store Pip 	Jan Tellefsen 	200px
Denmark
Leg med os fra Sesamgade
Elmo's Verden	Big Bird 	Caspar Phillipson 	
Finland
Seesamtie	Tipu Tilava 	Unknown 	
Germany
Sesamstrasse (1973-2023)
Weihnachten in der Sesamstraße (1978)
Bitte nicht die Bilder essen! (1980s)
Bibo in China (1980s)
Silvester auf der Sesamstrasse (1993)
Elmo rettet Weihnachten (1999)
and other specials and appearances (i.e. E.T. - Der Außerirdische)	Bibo 	Wolfgang Draeger 	
Germany
Sesamstrasse Folge 750 (1980s)	Bibo 	Caroll Spinney
(speaking German)	
Germany
Die Muppet Show Folge 318 (1980)	Big Bird "aus der Sesamstraße" 	Unknown
(first female voice artist)	
Germany
Muppet Movie (1980)	(Unnamed) 	Unknown
(second female voice artist)	
Germany
Die große Muppet-Party (1986) and
Die Muppets feiern Weihnacht (1990)	Der große Vogel aus der Sesamstraße (Die große Muppet Party; not named in Die Muppets feiern Weihnacht)	Inge Schulz 	
Germany
Bibos abenteuerliche Flucht (1985)	Big Bird
(despite the name "Bibo" in the title) 	Unknown 	
Germany
Die Abenteuer von Elmo im Grummelland (2000)	Bibo 	Stefan Krause 	
Japan
Sesame Street NHK dub	ビッグバード 	Mitsuaki Madono 	
Japan
Sesame Street (Japan)	ビッグバード 	Satoshi Tsuruoka 	
Mexico
Sigan a esa ave (Follow That Bird)	Abelardo 	Yamil Atala 	
Mexico
Plaza Sésamo	Big Bird 	Eduardo Garza 	
The Netherlands
Sesamstraat videos	Neef Jan 	Olaf Wijnants 	
Poland
Ulica Sezamkowa	Wielki Ptak 	Aleksander Mikołajczak	
Spain
Elmo en El País de los Gruñones (The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland)	Paco Pico 	Alberto Mieza 	
Spain
Juega Conmigo, Sésamo	Caponata 	Julian Rodriguez 	
==Book Translations==
Big Bird's many book appearances, when translated into other languages, have been inconsistent in their name usage, and often borrow the name of that country's Big Bird counterpart. Thus, in Dutch translations, Big Bird is often presented as Pino from Sesamstraat. He justifies this in the album Ernie Heeft Rommel Gemaakt (collecting Ernie's Big Mess and other stories), by claiming he's wearing his yellow feather suit.
The Spanish translations for Mexico and the Southwest United States of America are particularly inconsistent. In some books, apparently intended primarily for bilingual Americans, no attempts at translation are made at all, as in A Visit to the Sesame Street Library, where'e he's simply "Big Bird." In the 1991 translation of Nothing to Do (Nada Que Hacer), he's "Gran Pajaro" (while Granny Bird is "Abuelita" and Radar is "Tito"). However, Big Bird Goes to the Doctor is translated as Montoya Va el Doctor, borrowing the name of the bird on Plaza Sésamo.
==Other Translations==
During Big Bird's 1984 filming in Australia, the local media reported that the character was known as "Oki Na Tori" in China."Big Bird wings in with just one grouch: Oscar", The Age, 15 March 1984, page 40.
==Sources==
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