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Rio is a 2011 American animated musical adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation.It was directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay written by Don Rhymer, Joshua Sternin, Jeffrey Ventimilia, and Sam Harper, based on a story conceived by Saldanha and the writing team of Earl Richey Jones and Todd Jones.
Spix's macaw is the only known species of the genus Cyanopsitta.The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek kuanos meaning "blue" and psittakos meaning "parrot". [6] The species name spixii is a Latinized form of the surname "von Spix", hence Cyanopsitta spixii means "blue parrot of Spix". [6]
Rather, the macaws and other bird and animal species prefer clays with higher levels of sodium. [17] Sodium is a vital element that is scarce in environments greater than 100 kilometres from the ocean. [ 18 ]
If, by chance, the bird is looking away from you, then Doolittle believes that the red Cardinal has messages for you, but "you may be missing [them] by being too busy or too distracted from your ...
Rio 2 was released internationally on March 20, 2014, [5] and on April 11, 2014, [5] in American theaters by 20th Century Fox. It grossed $498.8 million worldwide against a production budget of $103‒130 million. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who complimented the animation and music, but criticized the story and writing.
The type locality was subsequently designated as Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil. [4] The red-crested cardinal is now one of six species placed in the genus Paroaria that was introduced in 1832 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. [5]
The frilled coquette's genus name derives from the Greek words "lophos λοφος"meaning "crest, tuft, forelock" and "ornis ορνις", " meaning bird. The species name "magnificus" is the Latin word for "magnificent, splendid". [5] The frilled coquette is monotypic. [3]
The Rio de Janeiro antwren is known only from the holotype and a few observations, and its taxonomy is unsettled. [2] The bird's discoverer, the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society, the International Ornithological Committee, and the Clements taxonomy consider it a full species.