North African ostrich Sahel to Senegal and Mauritania in the west, and north to Egypt and southern Morocco. It has now disappeared from large parts of this range and it only remains in 6 of the 18 countries where it originally occurred. This subspecies may also have occurred in the Sinai Peninsula, where Arabian ostriches once lived. North African ostriches can be found in open fields and the savannahs, especially in the Sahel of Africa. In Asia, the introduced North African ostriches live in grasslands, semi-deserts and plains. The North African ostrich had dramatically declined to the point where it is now included
North African communities of Paris Arab and Muslim countries. Naomi Davidson, author of "Only Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France", wrote that as of the mid-20th Century "The "community" of Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians, however, was certainly not monolithic, as even the police acknowledged in their discussion of the North African "populations" of the Paris region". According to French police records, there have been Algerian and other North African residents of the 18th, 19th, and 20th arrondissements of Paris for nearly a century. Many North Africans settled in the city in the 1920s, making up the largest immigrant group to the city during that period.