Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, USA (B), Venezuela.
Range disjunct or incompletely known: north-western and north-central Mexico (from Baja California) and adjacent USA, south through Yucatán (not recorded in Belize) and Guatemala (including western highlands) to Panama, including Pearl Is. In South America, distribution incompletely encircles Amazon Basin: western Ecuador; central Peru, near Lima; northern Colombia (Sta Marta Mts to Magdalena) east through northern and south-eastern Venezuela to the Guianas and Trinidad; north, eastern and south-eastern Brazil (from Amazon Delta and I de Marajó, southern and east through Ceará, Pernambuco, Alagoas and Bahia to Paraná) west through Paraguay to northern and eastern Bolivia (Beni, Santa Cruz).
 
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).