Abundance: 0.04 to 18.33% (median 1.61%)
Latitudinal range: -33.7° to 51.6°Habitats: desert/xeric shrubland (1), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (3), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (5), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (19), tropical/subtropical savanna (4), tropical/subtropical wetland (8)
Found in 40 samples
Australia: Paluma Range, Blue Gum Swamp Creek, Longneck Lagoon Nature Reserve (1965)
Bangladesh: Baikka Beel (March 2011), Baikka Beel (December 2011), Baikka Beel (February 2013), Pashua Haor (February 2012), Tanguar (February 2012)
Burkina Faso: Cascades Region (2011), Folonzo Village
Cameroon: Nyong River
China: Heshan Hilly Land Interdisciplinary Experimental Station
Czech Republic: Certak
Egypt: Burullus Ringing Station (Autumn 2005)
Ghana: Samole (wet season), Samole (dry season)
Indonesia: Larut Matang District (oil palm plantation), Tuanan
Jordan: Azraq Wetland Reserve
Madagascar: Réserve Naturella d'Intégrale d'Andringitra (720 m)
Malaysia: Pasoh Forest Reserve (virgin forest), Kuala Keniam, Gombak Field Station, Berkelah Hill Dipterocarp Rainforest Reserve Maran (recently logged forest), Berkelah Hill Dipterocarp Rainforest Reserve Maran (thirty year old logged forest), PPB Oil Palms Berhad (forest), PPB Oil Palms Berhad (edge), PPB Oil Palms Berhad (oil palm plantation), Kuap Village
Nigeria: Shasha Forest Reserve (36 mm mesh), Shasha Forest Reserve (61 mm mesh)
Philippines: Agusan Marsh Site 3, Mt Camagong
Switzerland: Portalban (Wald)
Uganda: Zika Forest (inside)
United Kingdom: Wanstead
Vietnam: Cuc Phuong National Park (birds), Tam Dao National Park, Bo Lu
Zambia: Kabwe
See also Alcedo argentata, Alcedo atthis, Alcedo azurea, Alcedo cristata, Alcedo cyanopectus, Alcedo euryzona, Alcedo leucogaster, Alcedo meninting, Alcedo pusilla, Alcedo quadribrachys, Alcedo vintsioides