Range Description

This species is widespread throughout south and central America (AOU 1983, Sibley and Monroe 1990, Howell and Webb 1995a). It is resident locally in peninsular Florida (USA), and from Sinaloa and Tamaulipas (Mexico) south through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama, to Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil (Sibley and Monroe 1990).