Species: Himantopus mexicanus

H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Large range but localized. BREEDS: locally on Atlantic coast from mid-Atlantic states south to southern Florida, and from southern Oregon, Idaho, northern Utah, southern Colorado, eastern New Mexico, central Kansas, Gulf Coast of Texas, and southern Louisiana and the Bahamas south through Middle America, Antilles, and most of South America to southern Chile and southern Argentina (AOU 1983); may breed also in eastern Montana and western South Dakota; resident in Hawaii (all main islands except Lanai). Mainly resident south of U.S. Some authors treat populations at the southern end of the range from central to southern South America as a distinct species (H. MELANURUS). NORTHERN WINTER: mostly southern California, southern coastal Texas, and Florida south through breeding range (AOU 1983).