Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Population
Estimated population is 20,000 - 49,999 (2010).
White Hawk (Pseudastur albicollis) [XC3132]
by Jesse Fagan from Serran\u00eda Cuchilla, Pil\u00f3n Lajas Biosphere Reserve, Beni, Bolivia (call)
White Hawk (Pseudastur albicollis) [XC28363]
by Tayler Brooks from Pico Bonito National Park, Honduras (call)
Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Grey-backed Hawk (Pseudastur occidentalis) and Mantled Hawk (Pseudastur polionotus), both of which have been considered subspecies of White Hawk (Pseudastur albicollis).
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
ghiesbreghti (Du Bus de Gisignies, 1845) - Southern Mexico (Oaxaca and Veracruz) to Guatemala and Belize.
costaricensis (Sclater, WL, 1919) - Honduras to Panama and western Colombia.
williaminae (Meyer de Schauensee, 1950) - North-western Colombia (upper Sinú and lower Magdalena Valleys south to Valle) and extreme north-western Venezuela (Perijá).
albicollis (Latham, 1790) - Eastern Colombia, north-western Venezuela (north-western Zulia), Trinidad and the Guianas through Amazonia to eastern Peru, eastern Ecuador, northern and eastern Bolivia (La Paz, Santa Cruz) and central and eastern Brazil (central Mato Grosso and northern Maranhío).