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 shrikethrush 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 from "umbrina" to the older name "tenebrosa". Alternate names for the sooty shrikethrush