Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), USA (B), Venezuela.
Population
Estimated population is 20,000,000 (2010).
Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis) [XC617011]
by Ana Carla Aquino from Aparecida de Goi\u00e2nia, ( Serra das Areias), Brazil (call, song)
Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis) [XC311012]
by Rodrigo Dela Rosa from Guatemala, Guatemala, Guatemala (call, song)
Subspecies
The following 7 subspecies are recognised:
insularis Nelson, 1898 - Tres Marías Is (off western Mexico).
merrilli Sennett, 1888 - Extreme southern USA and north-eastern Mexico.
yucatanensis Nelson, 1901 - Western and eastern Mexico south to Belize and central Guatemala.
intercedens Griscom, 1929 - Southern Guatemala south to Costa Rica and western Panama.
gilvus Bangs, 1902 - Panama and northern Colombia, perhaps to western Venezuela.
albicollis (Gmelin, 1789) - Eastern and southern Venezuela, Trinidad, the Guianas, northern and north-eastern Brazil. Also (possibly this race) eastern and southern Colombia and Ecuador south to northern Bolivia.
derbyanus Gould, 1838 - Central and southern Brazil south to north-eastern Argentina.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet