Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Coastal Mexico and Belize; Honduras to Panama; north-western Colombia locally south to western Ecuador and north-western Peru (unconfirmed), and east to Guyana (including Trinidad).
 
Population
Estimated population is 50,000 - 499,999 (2010).
Rufous-necked Wood Rail (Aramides axillaris) [XC421821]
by Niels Krabbe from Playa el Morro, Tumaco, San Andres de Tumaco, Nari\u00f1o, Colombia (song)
Rufous-necked Wood Rail (Aramides axillaris) [XC97033]
by Alfonso Auerbach from Aguas Verdes Aquaculture ponds, Tumbes, Peru (call)