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) [XC794667]
by Dany Sloan from Chesterfield State Forest, United States (alarm call, distraction display, broken wing display)
American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) [XC78342]
by Mike Nelson from Bear Head Lake State Park, St. Louis, Minnesota, United States (peent)
Subspecies
In past sometimes placed in genus Philohela.