The Azure-winged Magpie Cyanopica cyanus is remarkable both for the delicate beauty of its appearance and its extremely disjunct range. It is found only in Iberia and eastern Asia. It has often been suggested that the Iberian population might be a feral one and owe its origin to escaped or liberated captives that had been brought back by early Portuguese or Spanish traders with the Far East. In vi

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