Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, tolerance of a broad range of habitats, presumed large population.
Distribution
This species ranges from coastal Kenya and eastern and southern Tanzania (including the island of Zanzibar), through Mozambique, Zambia and southern Democratic Republic of the Congo to western Angola, northern Botswana, Zimbabwe and northeastern South Africa. There is an apparently isolated population in the Nyumbeni Hills in central Kenya. It occurs from sea level up to at least 1,500 m asl. Specimens from the Bwindi and Budongo Forests of western Uganda have been assigned to this species, but they are significantly outside the main range of the species so they are excluded from the distribution map, pending confirmation of their status.
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