Editing Trumpeter finch (section)

==Taxonomy==
The trumpeter finch was [[species description|formerly described]] in 1823 by the German naturalist [[Hinrich Lichtenstein]] under the [[binomial name]] ''Fringilla githaginea'' based on a specimen collected in Upper Egypt.<ref>{{cite book | last=Lichtenstein | first=Hinrich | author-link=Hinrich Lichtenstein | year=1823 | title=Verzeichniss der Doubletten des Zoologischen Museums der Königl. Universität zu Berlin : nebst Beschreibung vieler bisher unbekannter Arten von Säugethieren, Vögeln, Amphibien und Fischen | language=German | location=Berlin | publisher=T. Trautwein | page=24 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28229272 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Paynter | editor-first=Raymond A. Jr | year=1968 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=14 | publisher=Museum of Comparative Zoology | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=264 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14481465 }}</ref> The species is now placed together with [[Mongolian finch]] in the genus ''[[Bucanetes]]'' that was introduced in 1851 by [[Jean Cabanis]].<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela C. Rasmussen | date=August 2024 | title=Finches, euphonias | work=IOC World Bird List Version 14.2 | url=http://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/finches/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=2 February 2024}}</ref> The genus name ''Bucanetes'' is from [[Ancient Greek]] βυκανητής : ''bukanētēs'' (variant transliteration of ''bykanētēs''), "trumpeter"; from βυκάνη : ''bukánē'' : "spiral trumpet, horn". The specific name ''githagineus'' is [[Latin]] from '' Githago'', the [[Agrostemma githago|corn cockle]] (from ''gith'', "[[coriander]]", and ''-ago'' "resembling"). [[Coenraad Jacob Temminck|Temminck]] believed that the bird's name was derived from that of the plant.<ref name =job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A. | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London, United Kingdom | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n79 79], 173 }}</ref>

The genus name ''Bucanetes'' is from [[Ancient Greek]] βυκανητής : ''bukanētēs'' (variant transliteration of ''bykanētēs''), "trumpeter"; from βυκάνη : ''bukánē'' : "spiral trumpet, horn". The specific name ''githagineus'' is [[Latin]] from '' Githago'', the [[Agrostemma githago|corn cockle]] (from ''gith'', "[[coriander]]", and ''-ago'' "resembling"). [[Coenraad Jacob Temminck|Temminck]] believed that the bird's name was derived from that of the plant.<ref name =job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A. | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London, United Kingdom | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages =[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n79 79], 173 }}</ref>

There are four recognised subspecies:<ref name=ioc/>
* ''B. g. amantum'' - <small>([[Ernst Hartert|Hartert]], 1903)</small> - the Canary Islands
* ''B. g. zedlitzi'' - <small>([[Oscar Rudolph Neumann|Neumann]], 1907)</small> - North Africa and southeastern Spain
* ''B. g. githagineus'' <small>([[Hinrich Lichtenstein|Lichtenstein, MHK]], 1823)</small> - Egypt and Sudan
* ''B. g. crassirostris'' ([[Edward Blyth|Blyth]], 1847) - from Turkey and the [[Sinai Peninsula]] in the west east through the Middle East and Central Asia to [[Rajasthan]] and [[Haryana]] in India.
It has been recorded as a vagrant in [[Great Britain]] with the first records there both occurring in 1971 in [[Suffolk]] and in [[Sutherland]],<ref name = Dymond>{{cite book | author1 = J.N. Dymond | author2 = P.A. Fraser | author3 = S.J.M. Gantlett | name-list-style = amp | year = 1990 | title = Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland | publisher = Poyser | isbn = 0856610534 | pages = 305–306}}</ref> [[Channel Island]], Denmark, Sweden Germany and Austria. It is possibly a regular migrant in southern Europe away from Spain with records of flocks from Italy and Malta.<ref name = Lewington>{{cite book | author1 = Ian Lewington | author2 = Per Alstrom | author3 = Peter Colston | year = 1991 | title = A Field Guide to the Rare Birds of Britain and Europe (Collins Field Guide) | publisher = HarperCollins | isbn = 0002199173 | page = 385}}</ref> There was a population in the [[Algarve]] in Portugal which originated from escaped cage birds.<ref name = BIP/>