Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), USA (B), Venezuela.
Vagrant to Grenada.
Population
Estimated population is 20,000,000 (2010).
Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) [XC20715]
by Bernabe Lopez-Lanus from Tierra Blanca, Loreto, Peru (song?)
Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) [XC900389]
by id from Reserva natural educativa Ingeniero Maschwitz, Escobar, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina (?)
torquata (Linnaeus, 1766) - Extreme southern Texas and north-western Mexico south to Peru, south-eastern Bolivia, north-eastern Argentina and Uruguay, also Margarita I (off northern Venezuela) and Trinidad.
stictipennis (Lawrence, 1885) - Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique and Grenada, possibly also St Kitts.
stellata (Meyen, 1834) - Southern Chile and Argentina to Tierra del Fuego; migrates north to central Chile and north-eastern Argentina.