Belize, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, USA (B), Venezuela.
Introduced to Cuba (E).
Population
Estimated population is 3,000,000 (2010).
Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) [XC598115]
by Richard E. Webster from Fort Collins, Larimer County, Colorado, United States (begging call)
Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus) [XC531583]
by Thomas Magarian from Willamette Bluff, North Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States (call, song)
Subspecies
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
hesperophilus (Oberholser, 1903) - Western USA (southern from Washington, east to northern Utah and central Arizona) south to north-western Mexico (Baja California and south to southern Sonora).
witti Grant, PR, 1964 - Tres Marias Is, off western Mexico.
psaltria (Say, 1823) - West-central USA (Colorado and western Oklahoma) south to southern Mexico (central Veracruz and Oaxaca).
jouyi (Ridgway, 1898) - South-eastern Mexico (northern Yucatán Peninsula and Mujeres I) and north-western Belize.
colombianus Lafresnaye, 1843 - Southern Mexico (Chiapas) south, discontinuously, to northern and western Colombia, northern Venezuela, northern and southern Ecuador and north-western Peru.