Sesame Street - Boy Rescues Baby Bird - Animated

A youngling baby bird falls out of its nest and a young boy rescues him. The mother bird gets to return the favor rather quickly...

From the 1970s Classic Sesame Street.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Sesame
• Street
• baby
• bird
• vintage
• 70s
• cartoon
• animated
• boy
• rescue

[sesamestchick]

Thanks for all your comments!  I had this cartoon burned into my memory as a little one; I felt so embarrassed for him! Does anyone know who the animator was? The style seems so familiar, but different than the cartoons usually on the show.

[Pikachuiscool]

@IndyFan53 Even though there's plenty of other kids shows on tv today that show stuff like that. :P

[Smartboy8877]

@HayleyCometra

Thanks a million for all of that interesting information!

[HayleyCometra]

@Smartboy8877 Oh, I don't even remember where I learned it from. It was years and years ago. I guess it was from one of those "educational kid-oriented adventure in nature" shows that don't exist anymore. All I remember was a teen-adult boy in a park picking up a baby bird that had fallen and putting it back, after showing it to a nearby first-grader and telling him/her about avoiding rescuing other baby animals but rescuing baby birds is okay as long as you're careful.

[Smartboy8877]

@HayleyCometra

Where did you learn that birds can't smell? I find that very interesting!

[Muppephile]

@HayleyCometra - birds CAN smell, it's just that most birds cannot smell particularly well because the beak and large brain and large eyes leave very little room for sinuses. Kiwi, vulture, and albatross can all smell very well.

[IndyFan53]

Ah, I remember this one. Of course, you couldn't show this on Sesame Street today, because it shows a little boy's butt. lol!

[acholl980]

One good turn deserves another.

[HayleyCometra]

Except birds can't smell. When you're talking about other animals, yeah, you'd want to stay away from babies so the mothers don't abandon them for smelling like a person. But birds can't smell.

[AnimationDiana]

Eww. Gross. He's not wearing any underwear. He should also lose a few pounds because he popped his buttons on his pants when he bent over.

[Muppephile]

Cont-

Now that I'm 24 I realise that being a man is harder. Last year I think, a young fledgeling was stranded on the ground. It stood no chance against the local cats, or possums come evening, or snakes if our suburb still had any. Swarming ants had gotten to his face. It was the hardest thing I ever did to put it out of it's misery, and I assume birds are less resilient than we mammals, so it wouldn't have recovered.