Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, USA (B), Venezuela.
Black-bellied Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) [XC900109]
by Fernando Igor de Godoy from Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, United States (nocturnal flight call)
Black-bellied Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) [XC492614]
by Manuel Grosselet from Privanzas Los Mochis Ahome, Sinaloa, Mexico (nocturnal flight call)
Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
autumnalis (Linnaeus, 1758) - South-eastern Texas to central Panama. Also known as fulgens.
discolor P.L. Sclater and Salvin, 1873 - Eastern Panama to South America, south to Ecuador in the west and northern Argentina in the east.