Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada (B) (P), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada (B), Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and The Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, USA (B), Venezuela.
Vagrant to Argentina, Jamaica.
Population
Estimated population is 1,800,000 (2010).
Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo) [XC668893]
by Christopher McPherson from Jamestown, Chautauqua County, New York, United States (call)
Broad-winged Hawk (Buteo platypterus) [XC353341]
by Felipe Arantes from Cebolletas, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Ci\u00e9naga, Magdalena, Colombia (call)
Subspecies
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
platypterus (Vieillot, 1823) - Central and southern Canada to southern USA. Winters south to Brazil.