Distribution Veeries breed in a wide band across the northern United States and southern Canada, extending further south along the mountain chains of the eastern United States and the Rocky Mountains. This species is a long-distant neotropical migrant, wintering primarily in south-central and southeast Brazil (Remsen 2001, Bevier et al. 2004). At the southern limit of their breeding range in northern New Mexico, Veeries occur only along the Rio Pueblo and tributaries near Penasco in Taos County, and along the Rio Chama in Rio Arriba County (Parmeter et al. 2002).