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 barbthroat leucurus" distinct species, because of insufficient published evidence for their being conspecific. This "combined" species is considered to be of Least Concern by the IUCN. In addition, some suggest that the bronze-tailed barbthroat ("T. n. loehkeni") should also be considered a valid species and include the doubtful Christina's barbthroat ("T. n. christinae") as a subspecies. Freire's sooty barbthroat ("T. n. freirei") is intermediate between the sooty and bronze-tailed barbthroats however, and thus its status needs to be clarified before the situation is resolved. Sooty barbthroat The sooty barbthroat ("Threnetes niger") is a hummingbird species in the family Trochilidae. It is