<Tr> <Th> Gender </Th> <Td> Male </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Nationality </Th> <Td> American </Td> </Tr> <P> Tweety (short for Tweety Pie) is an animated fictional yellow canary in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of animated cartoons . The name "Tweety" is a play on words, as it originally meant "sweetie", along with "tweet" being a typical English onomatopoeia for the sounds of birds . His characteristics are based on Red Skelton's famous "Mean Widdle Kid ." Tweety appeared in 47 cartoons during the golden age . </P> <P> Despite the perceptions that people may hold, owing to the long lashes and high pitched voice (which Mel Blanc provided), Tweety is male although his ambiguity was played with . For example, in the cartoon Snow Business, when Granny entered a room containing Tweety and Sylvester she said: "Here I am, boys!", whereas a 1951 cartoon was entitled Ain't She Tweet (emphasis added). Also, his species is ambiguous; although originally and often portrayed as a young canary, he is also frequently called a rare and valuable "tweety bird" as a plot device, and once called "the only living specimen". Nevertheless, the title song of The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries directly states that the bird is a canary . His shape more closely suggests that of a baby bird, which is what he was during his early appearances (although the "baby bird" aspect has been used in a few later cartoons as a plot device). The yellow feathers were added but otherwise he retained the baby - bird shape . </P>

Looney tunes is tweety a boy or a girl
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