Rationale
(Changed due to Same category and criteria)
Listed as Least Concern in view of its very wide distribution, tolerance of a broad range of habitats, and presumed large population.
Distribution
This species ranges very widely in sub-Saharan Africa in the savannah zone surrounding the forest belt, from Senegal and Gambia east to Kenya and south to Angola, northern Botswana, Zimbabwe, northern and eastern South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique. It has not been recorded from Burkina Faso, Sudan, Rwanda and Burundi, but is possibly present in these countries (J.M. Dehling pers. comm., Oct. 2015), and it might also occur in Niger. It occurs from sea level up to over 2,000m.
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