Habitats: tropical/subtropical dry broadleaf forest (1), temperate broadleaf/mixed forest (11), tropical/subtropical savanna (2), Mediterranean woodland (2), tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest (2), temperate wetland (1)
Found in 20 samples
Brazil: Fazenda Brejão
Canada: Calling Lake (treatment), Tantramar Marshes, Charlotte County
Costa Rica: Monteverde
Guatemala: Puerto Barrios (mist netted birds)
Mexico: Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve (birds)
Paraguay: Para La Tierra Biological Station
United States: Baldwin County, Hanson, Sandrock Cliff (spring), William Trelease Woods (gap, spring), Wateree, Hiram, Dawes County (in-channel), Camarillo, Wedge Plantation, Laudholm Farm, China Creek Park, Jones (Late Pleistocene)
See also Molothrus aeneus, Molothrus ater, Molothrus bonariensis, Molothrus oryzivorus, Molothrus rufoaxillaris, Molothrus sp.