Distributed from southern Mexico to northwestern Peru and southeastern Brazil. In Mexico, it is distributed in the Atlantic slope, from southern Veracruz to Honduras, and in the Pacific slope from Chiapas to El Salvador.

It is a resident species, common to uncommon in their occurrence range, which is approximately 9,200,000 km2.

It is found between 0 and 750 (sometimes up to 1000) m asl, in evergreen and semideciduous forests (which at one time of year, trees lose some leaves) and edges.