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 falcon of nests failing at the egg or nesting stage. It was formerly classified as Least concern by the IUCN, but has recently been shown to be rarer than formerly believed. Consequently, it was uplisted to Near threatened status in 2008. Sooty falcon The sooty falcon ("Falco concolor") is a medium-sized falcon breeding from northeastern Africa to the southern Persian Gulf region. The sooty falcon belongs to the hobby group, a rather close-knit number of similar falcons often considered a subgenus "Hypotriorchis". Eleonora's falcon is sometimes considered its closest relative, but while they certainly belong to the same lineage, they do