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) [XC181303]
by Paul Marvin from Whiteface Mountain, Adirondacks, New York, United States (peent display)
American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) [XC461241]
by Bobby Wilcox from Rockville Rd., La Cygne Wildlife Area, Miami County, Kansas, United States (flight call, song)
Subspecies
In past sometimes placed in genus Philohela.