Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Montserrat, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Vagrant to Virgin Islands (U.S.).
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Short-tailed Swift (Chaetura brachyura) [XC769034]
by Antonio Xeira from Cidel\u00e2ndia, Reserva da Suzano, Maranh\u00e3o: BR, Brazil (flight call, song)
Short-tailed Swift (Chaetura brachyura) [XC779600]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Canopy Tower, Panama, Panama (call, flight call)
Subspecies
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
brachyura (Jardine, 1846) - Panama east to the Guianas and Trinidad, south to west-central Brazil and northern Bolivia.
praevelox Bangs & Penard, TE, 1918 - Grenada, St Vincent and Tobago.