Abundance: 0.01 to 16.28% (median 1.02%)

Latitudinal range: -34.0° to 31.0°

Habitats: temperate savanna (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (2), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (16), tropical/subtropical savanna (4), tropical/subtropical wetland (4)

Found in 27 samples

Bangladesh: Baikka Beel (March 2011)

Burkina Faso: Cascades Region (2011)

Cameroon: Nyong River

Egypt: Burullus Ringing Station (Autumn 2005)

Ethiopia: Oromia Region (forest captures)

Ghana: Samole (wet season), Samole (dry season)

Indonesia: Larut Matang District (oil palm plantation)

Malaysia: Pasoh Forest Reserve (virgin forest), Pasoh Forest Reserve (regenerating forest), Paya Indah Wetland Reserve

Nigeria: Shasha Forest Reserve (36 mm mesh), Shasha Forest Reserve (61 mm mesh)

Papua New Guinea: Crater Mountain Biological Research Station

Philippines: Agusan Marsh Site 3, Panicuason Central Nursery, Mt Camagong

South Africa: Cape Receife, Tonqani

Tanzania: Mangala Forest Reserve (three months post-fire)

Thailand: Wat Phai Lom (1969), Wat Phai Lom (1970)

Uganda: Makerere University Biological Field Station (unlogged), Budongo Forest Reserve Compartment N3, Zika Forest (inside), Zika Forest (outside)

Zambia: Balmoral

See also Halcyon albiventris, Halcyon badia, Halcyon chelicuti, Halcyon chloris, Halcyon concreta, Halcyon coromanda, Halcyon leucocephala, Halcyon lindsayi, Halcyon malimbica, Halcyon pileata, Halcyon senegalensis, Halcyon smyrnensis, Halcyon torotoro