Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Montserrat, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Vagrant to Virgin Islands (U.S.).
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Short-tailed Swift (Chaetura brachyura) [XC583037]
by Marcos Melo from Tupana lodge, Amazonas, Brazil (flight call)
Short-tailed Swift (Chaetura brachyura) [XC257779]
by John V. Moore from Sucumb\u00edos: 'La Selva Jungle Lodge', n bank R\u00edo Napo, Ecuador (flight call, flight calls)
Subspecies
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
brachyura (Jardine, 1846) - Panama east to the Guianas and Trinidad, south to west-central Brazil and northern Bolivia.
praevelox Bangs & Penard, TE, 1918 - Grenada, St Vincent and Tobago.