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) [XC483317]
by Brice de la Croix from Rio S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9,Parque Nacional do Juruena,Apiac\u00e1s,Mato Grosso, Brazil (call, song, calls)
Short-tailed Swift (Chaetura brachyura) [XC506012]
by GABRIEL LEITE from La Poudri\u00e8re, Cayenne, French Guiana (flight call)
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.