Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Vagrant to Uruguay.
Population
Estimated population is 20,000 - 49,999 (2010).
Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis) [XC260345]
by Paul Coopmans from Mato Grosso do Sul: 'Pousada Caiman', Brazil (call, calls)
Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis) [XC655671]
by Luiz C. Silva from Ass. San Luis, San Ignacio, Jos\u00e9 Miguel de Velasco, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia (subsong)
Subspecies
Allied to Buteogallus and Parabuteo.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
nigricollis (Latham, 1790) - Central Mexico (Sinaloa and Veracruz) south through Central America to Amazonia, west to eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru, east to the Guianas and Trinidad, and south through eastern Bolivia to southern Brazil.
leucocephalus (Vieillot, 1816) - Paraguay, Uruguay and northern Argentina (south to Salta, Santa Fe and Corrientes).