Abundance: 0.02 to 12.77% (median 1.16%)

Latitudinal range: -34.0° to 26.4°

Habitats: temperate savanna (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (12), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (22), tropical/subtropical savanna (8), tropical/subtropical wetland (1)

Found in 44 samples

Angola: Kumbira Forest, Cangandala National Park

Burkina Faso: Cascades Region (2011)

Cameroon: Nyong River

China: Shunhuang Shan Nature Reserve

Ethiopia: Oromia Region (coffee captures), Oromia Region (forest captures)

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

Indonesia: Tuanan

Ivory Coast: Bossematié Forest (selective cleaning), Bossematié Forest (control)

Kenya: Sokoke Forest (lowland rain forest), Nyeri County, Kakamega Forest

Madagascar: Sahambaky, Mahatsara, and Maromizaha, Réserve Naturella d'Intégrale d'Andringitra (720 m), Réserve Naturella d'Intégrale d'Andringitra (810 m), Réserve Naturella d'Intégrale d'Andringitra (1210 m)

Malaysia: Pasoh Forest Reserve (virgin forest), Pasoh Forest Reserve (regenerating forest), Kuala Keniam, Berkelah Hill Dipterocarp Rainforest Reserve Maran (thirty year old logged forest)

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

Philippines: Mt Camagong

South Africa: Umdoni Park, Cape Receife, Tonqani

Tanzania: Uluguru South Forest Reserve Basecamp 3, Mangala Forest Reserve (pre-fire), Mangala Forest Reserve (eight months post-fire), Bunduki Forest Reserve (cold season), Bunduki Forest Reserve (hot season)

Thailand: Wat Phai Lom (1970)

Uganda: Makerere University Biological Field Station (unlogged), Makerere University Biological Field Station (logged), Budongo Forest Reserve Compartment N3, Makerere University Biological Field Station Compartment K-15

Vietnam: Cuc Phuong National Park (birds)

Zambia: Balmoral, Copper Chalice, Mwinilunga

See also Terpsiphone cinnamomea, Terpsiphone mutata, Terpsiphone paradisi, Terpsiphone rufiventer, Terpsiphone rufocinerea, Terpsiphone viridis