Abundance: 0.10 to 42.59% (median 4.13%)

Latitudinal range: -34.1° to 31.8°

Habitats: (1), desert/xeric shrubland (1), mangrove (1), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (1), temperate savanna (1), tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (9), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (24), tropical/subtropical savanna (11), tropical/subtropical wetland (7)

Found in 56 samples

Angola: Cangandala National Park

Australia: Australian Botanic Garden

Bangladesh: Baikka Beel (March 2011), Baikka Beel (December 2011), Baikka Beel (February 2013), Pashua Haor (February 2012)

Burkina Faso: Cascades Region (2011), Folonzo Village

Cameroon: Nyong River

China: Heshan Hilly Land Interdisciplinary Experimental Station

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

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

India: Wangasara (Forest A), Wangasara (Forest B), Wangasara (Coffee plantation)

Indonesia: Linggoasri (secondary 2), Larut Matang District (secondary forest), Larut Matang District (oil palm plantation), Tuanan

Jordan: Azraq Wetland Reserve

Kenya: Nyeri County, Kakamega Forest

Malaysia: Pasoh Forest Reserve (virgin forest), Pasoh Forest Reserve (regenerating forest), Paya Indah Wetland Reserve, 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

Namibia: Waterberg Plateau Park

Nigeria: Jos Wildlife Park

Philippines: Agusan Marsh Site 3, Mt Camagong

Senegal: Dakar

Singapore: Sungei Mandai

South Africa: Cape Receife, Tonqani, Duinefontein 2 Horizon 2 (Middle Pleistocene)

Thailand: Wat Phai Lom (1969), Wat Phai Lom (1970), Srinakarin Dam (mist nets)

Uganda: Makerere University Biological Field Station (logged), Zika Forest (inside), Zika Forest (outside), Makerere University Biological Field Station Compartment K-15

Vietnam: Cuc Phuong National Park (birds), Tam Dao National Park

Zambia: Balmoral, Copper Chalice, Kabwe

See also Pycnonotus atriceps, Pycnonotus aurigaster, Pycnonotus barbatus, Pycnonotus blanfordi, Pycnonotus brunneus, Pycnonotus cafer, Pycnonotus caffer, Pycnonotus capensis, Pycnonotus cyaniventris, Pycnonotus erythropthalmos, Pycnonotus eutilosus, Pycnonotus eutilotus, Pycnonotus finlaysoni, Pycnonotus goiavier, Pycnonotus gracilis, Pycnonotus jocosus, Pycnonotus jocusus, Pycnonotus leucotos, Pycnonotus melanicterus, Pycnonotus melanoleucos, Pycnonotus nigricans, Pycnonotus plumosus, Pycnonotus simplex, Pycnonotus sinensis, Pycnonotus sp., Pycnonotus tricolor, Pycnonotus urostictus, Pycnonotus virens