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) [XC316236]
by Orlando Jarqu\u00edn G. from Sally Brown Nature Preserve, Garrard County, Kentucky, United States (song)
Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) [XC781042]
by Lance A. M. Benner from Upper Moreland Township (near Bryn Athyn), Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States (call, two interacting in flight)