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 oystercatcher Sooty oystercatcher The sooty oystercatcher ("Haematopus fuliginosus") is a species of oystercatcher. It is a wading bird endemic to Australia and commonly found on its coastline. It prefers rocky coastlines, but will occasionally live in estuaries. All of its feathers are black. It has a red eye, eye ring and bill, and pink legs. John Gould described the sooty oystercatcher in 1845. Its species name is the Latin adjective "fuliginosus", "sooty". Two subspecies are recognised, the nominate from the coastline of southern Australia and subspecies "ophthalmicus" from northern Australia. The southern subspecies is larger and heavier than the northern. The