Editing Trumpeter finch (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
The trumpeter finch breeds from the [[Canary Islands]] eastwards across North Africa, as far south as Mauritania, Mali and Chad, with isolated populations in Sudan and Ethiopia and Djibouti. In the Middle East, it is found in Egypt east to Iraq and south in the [[Arabian Peninsula]] to Yemen and Oman and north into Turkey and Armenia. In central Asia it ranges from Iran north to Kazakhstan and east to India.<ref name = iucn/> It has colonised southern Spain where breeding was first proved in 1971.<ref name = BIP>{{cite book | author1 = Eduardo de Juana | author2 = Ernest Garcia | year = 2015 | title = Birds of the Iberian Peninsula | publisher = Bloomsbury | isbn = 978-1408124802 | pages = 589–90}}</ref>

They are found in desert, semi-desert and the margins of deserts. They can also be found in vast open steppe areas where there are dry desolate hills with sparse low scrubby vegetation, edges of fields, on mountain slopes, in stony plains where there are no trees, cliffs, ravines, gorges and [[wadi]]s. In the desert regions of northern Africa it can also occur in villages and gardens and in regions of open sandy desert it frequents [[oasis|oases]].  The European breeding population is found in habitats where there is no tree cover but there is sparse scrub less than a metre in height, while the birds in the Canary Islands nest on sandy plains with halophytic and xerophytic scrub, as well as in more typical habitats.<ref name = iucn/>

In the summer of 2005, there was a notable irruption of this species into northwestern Europe, with several birds reaching as far as [[England]].<ref name = BBRC>{{cite journal | author = P.A.Fraser | author2 =M.J.Rogers | author3 = the Rarities Committee | name-list-style = amp | year = 2007 | title = Report on rare birds in Great Britain in 2005 Part 2:passerines | journal = British Birds | url = https://www.britishbirds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/article_files/V100/V100_N02/V100_N2_3_35.pdf | volume = 100 | issue = 2 | pages = 72–104}}</ref>