Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.
Locally in southern Venezuela (Amazonas, northern Bolívar, southern Monagas), the Guianas, Amazonian and eastern Brazil (east to southern Piauí and western Bahia, south to southern Mato Grosso and southern Goiás), south-eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru and north-eastern Bolivia (south to north-western La Paz, western Beni).
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Point-tailed Palmcreeper (Berlepschia rikeri) [XC769515]
by Mauricio Cu\u00e9llar-Ram\u00edrez from Porto Franco, Maranh\u00e3o Ecopousada Brasil, Brazil (song)
Point-tailed Palmcreeper (Berlepschia rikeri) [XC594270]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Reserva Natural Palmar\u00ed, Rio Javar\u00ed, AM, Brazil (song)