Endemic to islands of the eastern Caribbean.<\/strong>\u00a0 A habitat generalist that occurs in wet and dry forests, open woodlands, scrub, gardens, and urban areas.<\/p>

Notably prone to range expansions and contractions.\u00a0 Current range consists mainly of small islands along the eastern rim of the West Indies from Abaco south to Great Inagua and Turks & Caicos, eastern Hispaniola, Beata, Mona, Puerto Rico, and east through the Virgin and Leeward Islands, then south through the Lesser Antilles to St. Lucia; and separately on Bonaire.\u00a0 Formerly occurred on Jamaica, St. Vincent, Barbados, and the tiny Venezuelan island La Horquilla (northernmost of the Los Hermanos archipelago).<\/p>

In recent decades it has spread northward in the Bahamas, colonizing Cat Island, Eleuthera, New Providence, and Abaco, although it apparently has not established stable populations on most of those islands.\u00a0 It has also begun to colonize eastern Hispaniola around Punta Cana, and has been found occasionally westward along the coasts as far as Cap-Haitien and Santo Domingo.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t