Angola, Botswana, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Israel, Jordan (B) (NB), Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Oman (B), Saudi Arabia (B), Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania [United Republic of], Uganda, Yemen (B), Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Vagrant to Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Lebanon, Mali, Rwanda.
Southern Chad and western Sudan; from Israel, Egypt (Sinai) and south-eastern Arabian Peninsula; Ethiopia to Somalia and thence south, with main range Kenya south to South Africa.
 
Population
Estimated population is 10,000 - 100,000 (2010).