Iberian Azure-winged Magpie; Rabilargo

Thank you Antonio, I will try to find a good picture of several of these feeding from humans, but they move about so fast it is difficult because they are always under trees.

Nice Series!

incredble,genetics solve many misterys in ID species,i'am going to join your mission and put there all my bird spottings(gradualy:)the new ones i'll put them all,nice mission,congratulations

Hi Antonio, recent genetic analysis has shown that the two populations are distinct at species level, in other words, they appear to have evolved separately from one-another. I think the theory of them having transferred by sea one way or the other many centuries ago is possible as the two land masses have never been close together since long before birds of today evolved.
We have come across scores of these birds on several camping sites we have visited, they readily take food from humans!
By the way, you may now add your bird spottings in Spain/Portugal to my Birds of Iberia mission if you wish.

fantastic,endemic of our zone(center\south iberian peninsula) .I read that there are also in japan,and there are two teories for the actual destribuition,one says that it was natural of japan and portuguese saylors take it to here and she developed here and the other that says,that in past times this bird distribuition was much bigger from portugal to japan all over europe and asia and whith the climatic alterations all long the ages they slowly desapear from the center of the continents(europe and asia) and stay in the two extrems ,portugal and japan,similar whether,similar latitudes.i observed this species in the center of portugal(here where i live we dont have this bird is to north)and it's beautiful inteligent,great spot Malcolm