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) [XC257906]
by John V. Moore from Orellana: Laguna A\u00f1angu ('Napo Wildlife Center'), s-bank R\u00edo Napo, Ecuador (flight call, flight calls)
Ringed Kingfisher (Megaceryle torquata) [XC173693]
by Antonio Silveira from Vidal Ramos, Santa Catarina, Brazil (flight call, song)
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.