This state's classification carries no date range for the species.
IDFG's official 2026-27 Migratory Game Bird Seasons & Rules booklet gives woodcock no dedicated season/bag section (unlike ducks, geese, swans, dove, crow, and sandhill crane, each of which gets one) - woodcock is mentioned exactly once, generically, in a boilerplate definition of migratory bird types 'if there is an open season.' Idaho is at the marginal western edge of the species' range, and while no season is currently authorized, one could in principle be added under the federal frameworks Idaho already uses for other migratory species.
Idaho sits at the extreme western edge of American woodcock's range, and unlike the state's other upland/migratory game birds, no sub-state region can be honestly identified for it. The Western Field Ornithologists' rare-bird documentation project lists roughly 30 accepted vagrant records for the species across all of North and Middle America west of its core eastern range, virtually all of them from east of or very near the continental divide. The westernmost accepted records are in western Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, with none listed for Idaho at all. IDFG runs no species catalog entry, survey, or hunting-opportunity listing for woodcock (it does not appear among the upland species named for the Panhandle's own moist-forest habitat, the closest ecological analog to ruffed grouse country), there is no dedicated season section in IDFG's migratory game bird proclamation. No population, resident, breeding, or even a confirmed vagrant record, has been documented in Idaho at all.
No formal population survey program exists for this species in this state.
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