Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea (B), Iraq (B) (NB), Israel (B), Jordan (B) (NB), Kuwait (B), Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman (B), Qatar, Saudi Arabia (B), Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates (B), Western Sahara (B).
Vagrant to Senegal.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Pharaoh Eagle-Owl (Bubo ascalaphus) [XC781356]
by Peter Boesman from Birkat Al Mouz, Ad Dakhiliyah \u200dGovernorate, Oman (call, song)
Pharaoh Eagle-Owl (Bubo ascalaphus) [XC360561]
by Bart van Hoogstraten from near Oued Jenna, Morocco (call, song)
Subspecies
Eurasian Eagle-Owl (Bubo bubo) and Pharaoh Eagle-Owl (Bubo ascalaphus) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra AERC TAC (2003) and Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include ascalphus as a subspecies of Bubo bubo.