Abundance: 0.03 to 95.65% (median 1.56%)
Latitudinal range: -30.4° to 22.4°Habitats: mangrove (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (9), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (18), tropical/subtropical savanna (6), tropical/subtropical wetland (1)
Found in 35 samples
Burkina Faso: Cascades Region (2011)
Cameroon: Nyong River
Ethiopia: Oromia Region (coffee captures)
Ghana: Samole (wet season), Samole (dry season)
India: Wangasara (Forest A), Wangasara (Coffee plantation)
Indonesia: Linggoasri (secondary 2), Larut Matang District (secondary forest)
Kenya: Nyeri County, Kakamega Forest
Malaysia: Pasoh Forest Reserve (virgin forest), Paya Indah Wetland Reserve, Kuala Keniam, Berkelah Hill Dipterocarp Rainforest Reserve Maran (recently logged forest), PPB Oil Palms Berhad (oil palm plantation), Kuap Village
Philippines: Panicuason Central Nursery
Senegal: Dakar
Singapore: Sungei Mandai
South Africa: Umdoni Park
Tanzania: Mangala Forest Reserve (one week post-fire)
Thailand: Wat Phai Lom (1969), Wat Phai Lom (1970), Srinakarin Dam (mist nets)
Uganda: Makerere University Biological Field Station (unlogged), Makerere University Biological Field Station (logged), Zika Forest (inside), Zika Forest (outside)
Vietnam: Cuc Phuong National Park (birds), Tam Dao National Park, Bo Lu
Zambia: Balmoral, Copper Chalice, Kabwe
See also Lonchura 'bicolor', Lonchura atricapilla, Lonchura cucullata, Lonchura fuscans, Lonchura leucogastra, Lonchura leucogastroides, Lonchura maja, Lonchura malabarica, Lonchura malacca, Lonchura punctulata, Lonchura striata