Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Unknown to Chile.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 5,000,000 - 50,000,000 (2010).
Yellow-bellied Elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster) [XC617645]
by Nunes D\u00b4Acosta from Reserva Natural Rinc\u00f3n de Santa Mar\u00eda. Ituzaing\u00f3, Corrientes, Argentina (song)
Yellow-bellied Elaenia (Elaenia flavogaster) [XC152621]
by Yair G. Molina M. & Nicolas E. Molina V. from Estrada boiadeira, Tuneiras do Oeste., Brazil (call, song)
Subspecies
May be closely related to Large Elaenia (Elaenia spectabilis) and formerly treated as conspecific, but ranges overlap widely in Brazil, and they have different voices. Birds in south-western Colombia appear intermediate between nominate subspecies and semipagana.
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
subpagana Sclater, PL, 1860 - South-eastern Mexico east from southern Veracruz and Chiapas (including Mujeres I, off northern Quintana Roo) south to Costa Rica, also south-western Panama (Coiba I).
pallididorsalis Aldrich, 1937 - Panama and adjacent islands (except Coiba I).
flavogaster (Thunberg, 1822) - Colombia, Venezuela (including Margarita I and Patos I), Trinidad, Tobago, southern Lesser Antilles (the Grenadines, Grenada), the Guianan Shield, Brazil (southern, except in western and central Amazonas, to Rio Grande do Sul), south-eastern Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina.
semipagana Sclater, PL, 1862 - Extreme south-western Colombia, western and southern Ecuador (including Puná I) and interior north-western Peru.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet