Tawny Frogmouths inhabit open forests and woodlands of eucalypts and acacias throughout Australia. There three races – one southeastern Australia north to region of Cairns-Cooktown and west to inland regions of the Great Dividing Range and southeastern Australia; two Western Australia north to Great Sandy Desert, northeast to channel Country, Qld, and southeast to Murray mallee, Vic; and last northern Australia, south to the Great Sandy Desert, Barkly Tableland and southern plains of Gulf of Carpentaria, Qld.