Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).
Vagrant to Jamaica, St Pierre and Miquelon (P).
Eastern North America southern from Kansas, extreme southern Ontario and Massachusetts. Winters from southern USA (south-eastern Texas and Louisiana) south through Central America to northern South America; and from northern Florida south through Bahamas to Greater Antilles, and east to Virgin Is.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 15,000,000 (2010).
Chuck-will's-widow (Antrostomus carolinensis) [XC569526]
by Paul Driver from Skidaway Island, Chatham County, GA USA, United States (call)
Chuck-will's-widow (Antrostomus carolinensis) [XC728670]
by Jorge de Leon Cardozo & Susan Hochgraf from Tillinghast Pond Management Area (near West Greenwich), Kent County, Rhode Island, United States (call, song)
Subspecies
May form superspecies with Rufous Nightjar (Antrostomus rufus), with which has even been considered conspecific, but differs notably in both voice and morphology.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet