Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B).
Vagrant to St Pierre and Miquelon (P), United Kingdom.
Breeds mostly in eastern and central North America, from north-western Canada locally east to Maritime Provinces, and from northern Great Plains southern in USA to central Texas and east to Atlantic coast (south to Georgia). Winters south-eastern and central-southern USA (locally also north-eastern and south-west) south to southern Mexico.
 
Population
Estimated population is 16,000,000 (2010).
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) [XC355083]
by Aidan Place from North Carolina (near Greenville), Pitt County, North Carolina, United States (call, interaction call between two birds in flight)
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) [XC182331]
by Randy Dzenkiw from Kerr Wildlife Management Area, Kerr County, Texas, United States (song)