Belize, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, USA (B), Venezuela.
Introduced to Cuba (E).
Population
Estimated population is 3,000,000 (2010).
Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus) [XC531583]
by Thomas Magarian from Willamette Bluff, North Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, United States (call, song)
Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) [XC165809]
by Bobby Wilcox from Parque El Boqueron, El Salvador (call)
Subspecies
The following 5 subspecies are recognised:
hesperophilus (Oberholser, 1903) - Western USA (southern from Washington, east to northern Utah and central Arizona) south to north-western Mexico (Baja California and south to southern Sonora).
witti Grant, PR, 1964 - Tres Marias Is, off western Mexico.
psaltria (Say, 1823) - West-central USA (Colorado and western Oklahoma) south to southern Mexico (central Veracruz and Oaxaca).
jouyi (Ridgway, 1898) - South-eastern Mexico (northern Yucatán Peninsula and Mujeres I) and north-western Belize.
colombianus Lafresnaye, 1843 - Southern Mexico (Chiapas) south, discontinuously, to northern and western Colombia, northern Venezuela, northern and southern Ecuador and north-western Peru.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet