Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay (B), USA (B), Venezuela.
Vagrant to Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Puerto Rico (B), St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines.
Population
Estimated population is 20,000,000 (2010).
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) [XC328861]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Esta\u00e7\u00e3o Veracruz, Porto Seguro, BA, Brazil (call, wing sound)
Black Vulture (Coragyps atratus) [XC665087]
by Ricardo Jos\u00e9 Mitidieri from Reserva do Setor S\u00edtio de Recreio Cara\u00edbas-Goi\u00e2nia, Goi\u00e1s, Brazil (alarm call)
Subspecies
Affinities unclear. May be better considered monotypic, as validity of subspecies doubtful.
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
atratus (Bechstein, 1783) - Southern USA and northern Mexico.
brasiliensis (Bonaparte, 1850) - Central America and northern and eastern South America.
foetens (Lichtenstein, 1817) - Western South America.