Trumpeter Finch (Bucanetes githagineus) [XC583254]
by Geoffrey Monchaux from Province de Boulemane, F\u00e8s-Mekn\u00e8s, Morocco (flight call, nocturnal flight call)
Trumpeter Finch (Bucanetes) [XC780533]
by Paul Coiffard from Isla de Lanzarote (near Teguise), Las Palmas, Canarias, Spain (call)
Subspecies
Geographical variation slight, not always constant, and largely clinal.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
githagineus (Lichtenstein, 1823) - Egypt and north-central and north-eastern Sudan.
amantum (Hartert, 1903) - Central and eastern Canary Is (Tenerife east to Alegranza, La Graciosa, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura).
zedlitzi (Neumann, 1907) - South-eastern Spain, and northern Africa (southern Morocco east to southern Tunisia and Libya, south to Mauritania, northern Mali, northern Niger, northern Chad and north-western Sudan).
crassirostris (Blyth, 1847) - South-eastern and eastern Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan; eastern Lebanon, central Syria, eastern and southern Israel, Jordan, north-eastern Egypt (Sinai), southern Iraq and northern and central Arabian Peninsula; and Iran east to Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and northern and western Pakistan. Winters also to southern Arabian Peninsula, southern Pakistan (Sind, Makran Coast) and north-western India (Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan).
BirdLife International Species Factsheet