New York · MigratoryAmerican woodcock

American woodcock breeds across the entire state (documented in 38% of New York's Breeding Bird Atlas survey blocks) and DEC does not publish a sub-state density map, but the same Cooperator Ruffed Grouse & American Woodcock Hunting Log that produces the state's ruffed grouse ecozone data also breaks out woodcock flush rates by the same ecozone system, and the pattern is a real, quantified, DEC-published regional gradient rather than a uniform-statewide claim. The log ranks flush rates highest in northern New York's St. Lawrence Valley, Champlain Valley, and Adirondacks-Tug Hill ecozones, followed by the Mohawk Valley-Hudson Valley-Taconic Highlands ecozone, with the remaining ecozones lower; the Northern hunting zone as a whole outproduces the Southern zone despite less hunting effort. DEC's own Species Status Assessment separately notes that display activity starts earliest on Long Island in March and continues latest in the north into June.