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.
Population
Estimated population is 10,000 - 100,000 (2010).
Ornate Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus) [XC898966]
by Marcos E. Sosa from Parque Provincial Cruce Caballero, San Pedro, Misiones, Argentina (begging call)
Ornate Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus) [XC722096]
by JAYRSON ARAUJO DE OLIVEIRA from Santa Rita do Novo Destino, Goi\u00e1s, Ch\u00e1cara Jayrson, Brazil (call, hatchling or nestling)
Subspecies
As with Black Hawk-Eagle (Spizaetus tyrannus), relationship to Old World species of genus unclear.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
vicarius Friedmann, 1935 - South-eastern Mexico through Central America to western Colombia and western Ecuador.
ornatus (Daudin, 1800) - Eastern Colombia east to the Guianas and Trinidad, and south through eastern Ecuador, north-eastern Peru, northern and eastern Bolivia and Brazil to Paraguay and northern Argentina (Jujuy to Misiones).