Sooty & Co. Sooty & Co. Sooty & Co. is a British children's television series that was produced for six series by Granada Television, that aired on ITV from 6 September 1993 to 14 December 1998. The series centres on Matthew Corbett, and puppets Sooty, Sweep, Soo and Little Cousin Scampi, as they try to run a bric a brac shop in Manchester. Matthew Corbett runs a shop in Manchester, with puppets Sooty (a yellow bear that can perform magic), Sweep (a squeaking dog), Soo (a female panda), and Little Cousin Scampi (another, if smaller, bear). Sooty and the gang are often getting
Sooty tern as "manutara". The "manutara" played an important role in the "tangata manu" ("birdman") ritual: whichever "hopu" (champion) could retrieve the first "manutara" egg from Motu Nui islet would become that year's "tangata manu"; his clan would receive prime access to resources, especially seabird eggs. Sooty tern The sooty tern ("Onychoprion fuscatus") is a seabird in the family Laridae. It is a bird of the tropical oceans, breeding on islands throughout the equatorial zone. The sooty tern was described by Linnaeus in 1766 as "Sterna fuscata", bearing this name for many years until the genus "Sterna" was split up. It is