Guinea,Ethiopia,Equatorial Guinea,Nigeria,Mali,Niger,Cameroon,Burkina Faso,Rwanda,Benin,Zambia,Sierra Leone,Eritrea,Guinea-Bissau,Ghana,Togo,Gabon,Kenya,Mauritania,Tanzania,Chad,Uganda,Sao Tome and Principe,Gambia,Burundi,Sudan,Senegal,Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo,Congo,South Sudan,
Subspecies
Group
Subspecies
Breeding Range
melanocephalus
Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Mali and Niger
capitalis
Guinea Bissau to Nigeria, n Cameroon, sw Chad and n Central African Republic
duboisi
e Congo, s Central African Republic and sw Sudan to n Zambia
dimidiatus
ne Sudan and w Eritrea
fischeri
e DR Congo, Uganda, w Kenya, nw Tanzania and n Zambia
Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN
Antarctica
AO
Atlantic Ocean
AU
Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU
Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO
Indian Ocean
LA
Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA
Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA
North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO
Northern oceans
OR
Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
