Canada (B), Mexico, St Pierre and Miquelon (B) (P), USA (B).
Southern Manitoba through Ontario and Quebec to New Brunswick and south-western Newfoundland, and south through Great Plains and eastern USA to east-central Texas, Gulf states and Florida. Winters in south-eastern USA, on Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains from southern Texas to southern Florida.
 
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) [XC805470]
by Manuel Oudard from Halifax, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States (flight call, song, display)
American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) [XC613720]
by Joseph Fell from Tetzlaff Rd., Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada (call)
Subspecies
In past sometimes placed in genus Philohela.