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Minnesota american woodcock hunting report

Last updated 2026-09-24 · from MN DNR data · 2026 season year

American woodcock season is open in Minnesota today, and shuts November 2. The bird is a stronghold in Minnesota.

Season status

Today
Open
Season
September 19, 2026 to November 2, 2026 — 45 days afield
Bag
not published

Computed against the day this page was built, from MN DNR's dates. This page carries no weather and no bird count: this app holds neither a hunting-weather model nor a population survey for american woodcock, and a report that invented either would be worse than one that says so.

September in the cover

Wet alder runs, damp aspen bottoms and shrub swamp — soft ground the bird can probe for worms. Woodcock cover is often two hundred yards of a creek bottom rather than a whole block of forest.

Where the bird is

Minnesota is both breeding ground and the top of the Mississippi flyway, so the state holds local birds all season and then the flight birds move through the alder and lowland brush in October.

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Stronghold Regular Present Occasional No records The 10 units in the table below
58 of 72 subbasins draining Minnesota carry a american woodcock record. Observed occurrences, not a range map and not a habitat model. Scored as a share of all bird records in the same cell, so a well-watched county does not read as better bird country than an unwatched one. The mesh is the subbasin — the unit this app scores in — and not the state line, so its edge is a drainage divide rather than a border. The green is the 10 public units in the table below, drawn as PAD-US records their boundaries: context, not permission.

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