The White-winged Parakeet is found in the Amazon Basin in seasonally flooded várzea forest, in secondary forest and on river islands. There is a distribution map on NatureServe showing also the introduced population in California.

It is sometimes treated as being conspecific with Yellow-chevroned Parakeet B. chiriri but both species are reported from eastern Pará without any interbreeding.

Jeremy Minns recording is of the same small flock from which photos 2 to 4 were taken.