Field notes, v1545
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Remsen, J.V. 1979 Scott's Oriole Icterus parisorum May 2 Red Rocks Park, Jefferson Co., Colo.: 1 imm.♂ seen with Robert Andrews at a brushy draw along the northeast entrance road (first draw with trees as you enter the park). It was found the previous day by John Cooper and is the first acceptable record for Colorado. The head and upper breast were all black; the back was streaked blackish on a dull green background; the lower back, rump, and tail were dull greenish; the underparts were dull yellowishgreen; the wings were dark with two white wingbars. It occasionally called - call note sounded similar to Brewer's Blackbird's. It foraged very deliberately in the tops of flowering and budding cottonwoods, and was watched for at least 15 minutes. Photographed