Argentina (B), Belize (B), Bolivia (B), Brazil (B), Colombia (B), Costa Rica (B), Ecuador (B), El Salvador (B), French Guiana (B), Guatemala (B), Guyana (B), Honduras (B), Mexico (B), Nicaragua (B), Panama (B), Paraguay (B), Peru (B), Suriname (B), Trinidad and Tobago (B), USA (B), Venezuela (B).
Population
Estimated population is 2,000,000 (2010).
Short-tailed Hawk (Buteo brachyurus) [XC780738]
by id from Sugar Mill Ruins, New Smyrna Beach, Volusia County, Florida, United States (flight call, screams of short-tailed hawk, keek series from red-shouldered hawk)
Subspecies
Has been considered to include White-throated Hawk (Buteo albigula), either as subspecies or within single monotypic species, but no intergradation reported, despite possible overlap of ranges. Forms superspecies with White-throated Hawk (Buteo albigula).
brachyurus Vieillot, 1816 - Colombia south to western Ecuador, east to the Guianas and Brazil, and south through eastern Peru and eastern Bolivia (La Paz and Cochabamba) to Paraguay and northern Argentina (Jujuy, Tucumán, Misiones).