“…Some studies have described decreases in bird species richness from eastern to western Palaearctic forests, and towards both the north and south of the Eurasian continent (Mönkkönen, 1994;Mönkkö-nen and Viro, 1997;Covas and Blondel, 1997), suggesting that forest bird faunas of the Iberian Peninsula are somewhat impoverished with respect to other central and northern European latitudes (Blondel and Farré, 1988). Moreover, Carrascal and Lobo (2003; see also Tellería andSantos, 1993, 1994;Carrascal and Díaz, 2003), recorded impoverishment of forest bird species richness from the Pyrenees to the southwestern region of the Iberian Peninsula, chiefly for species of European or Nearctic-Palaearctic distribution (see Voous, 1960; for faunal types). Consequently, fewer species of restricted requirements were expected in the Sistema Central, located in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula, at the southwestern limit of the Palaearctic region.…”