Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Population
Estimated population is 10,000 - 100,000 (2010).
Ornate Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus) [XC3967]
by Todd Mark from Manu Wildlife Centre, Madre de Dios, Peru (call)
Ornate Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus) [XC148098]
by Gary Stiles (Colecci\u00f3n de Sonidos Ambientales - Instituto Humboldt) from Choc\u00f3, Bah\u00eda Solano, PNN Ensenada de Utr\u00eda, a ridge above Morro negro, Colombia (call)
Subspecies
As with Black Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus tyrannus), relationship to Old World species of genus unclear.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
vicarius Friedmann, 1935 - South-eastern Mexico through Central America to western Colombia and western Ecuador.
ornatus (Daudin, 1800) - Eastern Colombia east to the Guianas and Trinidad, and south through eastern Ecuador, north-eastern Peru, northern and eastern Bolivia and Brazil to Paraguay and northern Argentina (Jujuy to Misiones).