Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica (NB), Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (B) (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).
Vagrant to Greenland, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom.
Aleutian Is and central-western Alaska (Seward Peninsula) east through central Canada to Labrador and Newfoundland, and south throughout USA to southern California and southern Texas and northern coast of Gulf of Mexico. Winter range south to eastern Panama, northern Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Galapagos Is and the Caribbean to Trinidad.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 2,000,000 (2010).
Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) [XC307686]
by Thomas Magarian from Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States (call)
Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) [XC443809]
by Harry Hussey from LLELA Nature Preserve (near Lewisville), Denton County, Texas, United States (call, flight call)
Subspecies
Forms a superspecies with Crested Kingfisher (Megaceryle lugubris), Giant Kingfisher (Megaceryle maxima) and Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata). Proposed subspecies caurina on basis of larger size is unwarranted due to variation across entire range.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet