Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
White-tailed Nightjar (Hydropsalis cayennensis) [XC354935]
by Francisco contreras from La Escalera - Canaima National Park - Venezuela, Venezuela (song)
White-tailed Nightjar (Hydropsalis cayennensis) [XC22147]
by David Bradley y Sandra Valderrama from Paraitepui, Bolivar, Venezuela (song)
Subspecies
Has been considered to have close affinities with White-winged Nightjar (Eleothreptus candicans), forming superspecies or possibly even conspecific, but available evidence suggests that they may not be closely related. Species formerly listed as Caprimulgus albicauda.
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
albicauda (Lawrence, 1875) - South-eastern Costa Rica east to north-western Colombia.
aperta J. L. Peters, 1940 - Western Colombia south to extreme northern Ecuador.
insularis (Richmond, 1902) - Extreme north-eastern Colombia, north-western Venezuela, Margarita I and islands of Curaçao, Aruba and Bonaire.
manati (Pinchon, 1963) - Martinique.
leopetes (Jardine & Selby, 1830) - Trinidad, Tobago, Bocas Is and Little Tobago.
cayennensis (Gmelin, 1789) - East-central and north-eastern Colombia east through Venezuela, the Guianas and probably extreme northern Brazil.