Habitats: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (4), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (3), tropical/subtropical savanna (6)

Found in 13 samples

Burkina Faso: Cascades Region (2011)

Cameroon: Nyong River

Ethiopia: Oromia Region (coffee captures)

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

Kenya: Nyeri County

Senegal: Dakar

South Africa: Umdoni Park

Tanzania: Mangala Forest Reserve (one week post-fire)

Uganda: Makerere University Biological Field Station (logged)

Zambia: Balmoral, Copper Chalice, Kabwe

See also Lonchura, Lonchura atricapilla, Lonchura bicolor, Lonchura fuscans, Lonchura leucogastra, Lonchura leucogastroides, Lonchura maja, Lonchura malabarica, Lonchura malacca, Lonchura punctulata, Lonchura striata