Latitudinal range: -9.8° to 7.1°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (8), tropical/subtropical savanna (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (1)

Found in 10 samples

Angola: Cangandala National Park

Ivory Coast: Bossematié Forest (control)

Kenya: Sokoke Forest (lowland rain forest)

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

Tanzania: Amani Site 10, Mangala Forest Reserve (pre-fire), Mangala Forest Reserve (eight months post-fire)

Uganda: Makerere University Biological Field Station (unlogged), Makerere University Biological Field Station (logged)

See also Smithornis capensis, Smithornis rufolateralis