Aruba, Bahamas (B), Brazil, Colombia, Cuba (B), Dominican Republic (B), Ecuador (B), French Guiana, Guyana, Haiti (B), Jamaica, Mexico (B), Netherlands Antilles (B), Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands (NB), USA, Venezuela (B).
Vagrant to Anguilla (NB), Antigua and Barbuda (E), Barbados (E), Belize, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman Islands, Guadeloupe, Honduras, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, Virgin Islands (U.S.).
Caribbean; Galapagos.
 
Population
Estimated population is 260,000 - 330,000 (2011).
American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) [XC669355]
by Justin Watts from road to Sorobon, Bonaire, Netherlands (call)
American Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) [XC824005]
by id from Playa del Carmen, Solidaridad, Quintana Roo, Mexico (call)
Subspecies
Phoenicopterus ruber (Sibley and Monroe, 1990, 1993) has been split into Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) and Caribbean Flamingo (Phoenicopterus ruber) following Knox et al. (2002), contra SACC (2005).
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
ruber Linnaeus, 1758 - Caribbean; Galapagos.
roseus Pallas, 1811 - Southern Spain and southern France east to Kazakhstan; south through north, western and eastern Africa to South Africa and through Middle East to India and Sri Lanka. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus).