Trumpeter Finch, Bucanetes githagineus, is a species of passerine bird in the finch family found in heathland and shrub and unvegetated or sparsely vegetated land ecosystems. It breeds patchily in the Canary Islands, Spain, Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia. In Europe, this species uses areas without tree cover but with sparse scrub (less than 100 cm), including erosion-prone, poorly vegetated uncultivated areas. In the Canary Islands, it also nests on sandy plains with halophytic and xerophytic scrub (European Red List 2015).

Bucanetes githagineus has a breeding population size of 10300-20500 pairs and a breeding range size of 13000 square kilometres in the EU27. The breeding population trend in the EU27 is Decreasing in the short term and Decreasing in the long term.

The EU population status of Bucanetes githagineus was assessed as Secure, because the species does not meet any of the IUCN Red List criteria for threatened or Near Threatened, or the criteria for Depleted or Declining (the EU27 population or range has not declined by 20% or more since 1980).