Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.
Vagrant to Trinidad and Tobago.
South America east of Andes, from eastern Colombia to mouth of R Amazon, then south to Paraguay, south-eastern Brazil and extreme north-eastern Argentina (Misiones).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Pied Plover (Hoploxypterus cayanus) [XC1873]
by Sjoerd Mayer from Flor d'Oro, Noel Kempff Mercado NP, Santa Cruz, Bolivia (call)
Pied Plover (Hoploxypterus cayanus) [XC788975]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Monte Alegre Rio Paran\u00e3-Comunidade Sucuri-Boc\u00e3o, Brazil (call)