Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda.
From western and south-eastern Nigeria very patchily south to north-western and north-eastern Angola, discontinuously east to northern Central African Republic, north-eastern DRCongo, western Uganda and Rwanda.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Red-eyed Puffback (Dryoscopus senegalensis) [XC503402]
by Andres Angulo Rubiano from Mbam et Djerem National Park, second camp, forest transect, ecotone savanna-forest, Cameroon (call)
Red-eyed Puffback (Dryoscopus senegalensis) [XC619162]
by BurBenj from Djomo, Bayanga, Sangha-Mbare, Central African Republic (call)