Argentina (B), Bolivia (B), Brazil (B), Colombia (B), Ecuador (B), French Guiana (B), Guyana (B), Paraguay (B), Peru (B), Suriname (B), Venezuela (B).
East of Andes from Colombia and north-eastern Ecuador (perhaps only migrants), southern Venezuela and the Guianas south through Brazil (except north-east), eastern Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay to northern Argentina (Misiones); not recorded between R Negro and R Madeira in western Amazonia.
 
Population
Estimated population is 1,000 - 10,000 (2010).
Grey-bellied Hawk (Accipiter poliogaster) [XC40546]
by Leonardo R. Deconto from Los Amigos research station, Peru (song)
Grey-bellied Hawk (Accipiter poliogaster) [XC63094]
by Joseph Tobias and Nathalie Seddon from Andrew's Camp, Noel Kempff Mercado NP, Santa Cruz, Bolivia (call)
Subspecies
Birds in the very distinctive immature plumage formerly classified as separate species, Accipiter pectoralis.