Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, USA (B), Venezuela.
Black-bellied Whistling Duck (autumnalis) [XC368094]
by Manuel Grosselet from Muelle San Miguelito (near San Miguelito), Departamento de R\u00edo San Juan, Nicaragua (flight call)
Black-bellied Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) [XC490744]
by Thomas Magarian from Conchas, Conchas, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil (flight call)
Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
autumnalis (Linnaeus, 1758) - South-eastern Texas to central Panama. Also known as fulgens.
discolor P.L. Sclater and Salvin, 1873 - Eastern Panama to South America, south to Ecuador in the west and northern Argentina in the east.