Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (B) (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B).
Vagrant to Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, Jamaica, Norway, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (U.S.).
Northern and central America, from southern and central Canada to Panama; West Indies.
 
Population
Estimated population is 3,000,000 (2010).
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