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) [XC257778]
by John V. Moore from Napo: 'Gareno (Guaponi) Lodge', Ecuador (flight call, song, flight calls, songs)
Short-tailed Swift (Chaetura brachyura) [XC693395]
by id from Flor de Inirida, Guain\u00eda, Colombia (call, song, song and 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.