Sooty puppet's name. He would later be joined by other puppet glove characters, including Sweep (a dog who communicates by a saxophone reed type squeak), Soo (a shy and sweetly spoken panda), Kipper (a cat), Butch (another dog who occasionally plays the part of a villain), Ramsbottom (a snake), 'Enry the Robot, Cousin Scampi (another bear, who is Sooty's cousin), Miki (another cat - this time Brazilian) and Maggie Mouse. Like Sooty, Scampi appears to talk only in a very light whisper which can be heard only when someone puts their ear close to his mouth. Matthew Corbett, the son of
Sooty shrikethrush include the obscure shrike-thrush, sooty robin-whistler and sooty whistler. Two subspecies are recognized: Sooty shrikethrush The sooty shrikethrush ("Colluricincla tenebrosa") is a species of bird in the family Pachycephalidae. It is found in the New Guinea Highlands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. The sooty shrikethrush was formerly known as "Colluricincla umbrina" , as the name "Rectes tenebrosus" (the morningbird) has priority over "Pachycephala tenebrosa" (the sooty shrikethrush) when the two species are placed in the same genus; with the transfer of the morningbird from the genus "Colluricincla" to "Pachycephala" in 2013, the sooty shrikethrush reverted