Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), USA (B), Venezuela.
Vagrant to Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico (B), St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines.
Population
Estimated population is 20,000,000 (2010).
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) [XC638575]
by Santiago Varela & Manuel Due\u00f1as from Orellana: Parque Nacional Yasun\u00ed - Comunidad D\u00edcaro, Ecuador (alarm call, hatchling or nestling)
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) [XC480586]
by Brice de la Croix from Skidaway Island, Chatham County, GA USA, United States (alarm call)
Subspecies
Affinities unclear. May be better considered monotypic, as validity of subspecies doubtful.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
atratus (Bechstein, 1783) - Southern USA and northern Mexico.
brasiliensis (Bonaparte, 1850) - Central America and northern and eastern South America.
foetens (Lichtenstein, 1817) - Western South America.