Belize, Canada (B), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, USA (B).
Vagrant to Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Haiti, Iceland, Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Portugal, Puerto Rico, St Pierre and Miquelon (P), Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom.
South-eastern Canada and eastern USA. Non-breeding eastern Mexico and Central America.
 
Population
Estimated population is 14,000,000 (2010).
Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) [XC369874]
by Eric DeFonso from Missouri (near Nelson), Saline County, Missouri, United States (song)
Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) [XC692208]
by Christopher McPherson from Cow Path Lane, Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Generic placement of species unstable over past half-century. Has been thought close to Turdus, but latest evidence suggests that treatment in Catharus may be appropriate. In past, present genus was sometimes broadened to include five species of Catharus.