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Virginia american woodcock hunting report

Last updated 2026-09-24 · from VDWR data · 2026–27 licence year

American woodcock season is shut in Virginia today. It opens November 11, 2026 — 48 days away. The bird is well established in Virginia.

Season status

Today
Shut
Next opening
November 11, 2026
Season
November 11, 2026 to January 18, 2027 — 45 days afield
Bag
3 per day, 9 in possession

Computed against the day this page was built, from VDWR'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

Statewide, and almost entirely a passage bird — Virginia's season is split into two segments around the turn of the year to sit under the flights rather than over the handful that nest here.

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Stronghold Regular Present Occasional No records The 10 units in the table below 7 units too small to draw
42 of 53 subbasins draining Virginia 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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