Latitudinal range: 5.4° to 36.8°

Habitats: tropical/subtropical wetland (1), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (4), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (1)

Found in 7 samples

Cameroon: Kwende Hills (cocoa/coffee plots), Kwende Hills (annual crop plots)

China: Foping National Nature Reserve (2020)

Egypt: Burullus Ringing Station (Autumn 2005)

Spain: Cueva de Nerja (Last Glacial Maximum) (Late Pleistocene)

Thailand: Wat Phai Lom (1969), Wat Phai Lom (1970)

See also Athene brama, Athene lunulata, Athene noctua