Editing Azure-winged magpie (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
It occurs over a large region of [[Palearctic|eastern Asia]] in [[China]], [[Korea]], [[Japan]], and north into [[Mongolia]] and southern [[Siberia]]. The [[Iberian magpie]] from southwestern and central parts of the [[Iberian Peninsula]], in [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]] was formerly thought to be conspecific, but recent genetic analysis has shown them to be distinct at species level.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Inferring the phylogeny of disjunct populations of the azure-winged magpie ''Cyanopica cyanus'' from mitochondrial control region sequences |last1=Fok |first1=Koon Wah |last2=Wade |first2=Christopher M. |last3=Parkin |first3=David T. |journal=Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B |volume=269 |issue=1501 |pages=1671–1678 |year=2002|doi=10.1098/rspb.2002.2057|pmid=12204127 |pmc=1691084}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kyukov |first1=Alexei |first2=Masahiro A. |last2=Iwasa |first3=Ryozo |last3=Kakizawa |first4=Hitoshi |last4=Suzuki |first5=Wilhelm |last5=Pinsker |first6=Elisabeth |last6=Haring |title=Synchronic east–west divergence in azure-winged magpies (''Cyanopica cyanus'') and magpies (''Pica pica'') |journal=Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research |volume=42 |issue=4 |pages=342–351 |year=2004 |doi=10.1111/j.1439-0469.2004.00287.x|doi-access=free }}</ref>