Latitudinal range: -7.0° to 53.6°

Habitats: temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (2), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (2), boreal forest/taiga (1), mangrove (1), tropical/subtropical savanna (2)

Found in 8 samples

Belize: Blue Creek Village (Field Station)

Brazil: Estuário do rio Paraíba do Norte

Canada: Churchill Falls

Ghana: Samole (wet season), Samole (dry season)

Guatemala: Puerto Barrios (mist netted birds)

United States: Sandrock Cliff (fall), Dawes County (in-channel)

See also Megaceryle alcyon, Megaceryle maxima, Megaceryle torquata