One immature male (84-38) photographed in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, on 24-25 October 1984 (Norton Nelkin*, Mac Myers).
One adult male (85-4) at Johnsons Bayou, Cameron Parish, on 19 February 1985 (Al Smalley, Gwen Smalley).
One adult male (1985-02; formerly 86-3), photographed, at a feeder in Heflin, Webster Parish, from 18 December [1985] to 29 March 1986 (Velma Dawson, Paul McKenzie; Bruce Crider, Paul Dickson, et al).There are only six previous records for Louisiana, and no Scott's Oriole had been reported in the state since 1974; the record from Webster Parish is the first from northern Louisiana.
One immature male (90-12) from 21 Jan.-2 Mar. 1990, St. Landry: 2 mi. W of Eunice on Hwy. 190; Bonnie Ardoin and Joseph P. Kleiman (AB 44(2):283). One adult male (90-103) from 12-17 Oct. 1990, St. Charles: Norco; Harold Cambre (ph).
One immature female (99-60) on 13 Nov 1999, Iberville: 4 mi. N of St. Gabriel, 435 Pecan Drive; Steven W. Cardiff (LSUMZ 169504; DLD) and Donna L. Dittmann; NAB 54(1): 64.
One immature male (1985-72) on 26 Oct 1985, Cameron: Johnsons Bayou; Steven W. Cardiff (LSUMZ 126918); AB40(1):129 incorrectly indicates that the bird was a female. This was the ninth Louisiana record and second state specimen.
One immature male (2003-18) from 21-24 December 2003, Cameron: near old mouth
Mermentau River (Rutherford Beach �east�; found during Creole CBC); Phillip A. Wallace,
Christie Riehl, James W. Beck (ph), Dave Patton (ph only), Paul Conover (ph only) and David
P. Muth (ph only); last date given as 26 Dec in NAB58(2):243.
Photos by Dave Patton (1), James Beck (2), Paul Conover (3,4)
One female (2011-094) on 5 December 2011-27
February (Coney Barr� fide SWC) 2012, East Baton Rouge: Baton
Rouge, 8645 Gail Drive, residence of Coney and Janie
Barr� (videotape);
Mary Mehaffey
(ph),
Dave Patton
(ph), Justin Bosler,
Kimberly Lanka
(photos only), [and Jay Huner].
Photo by Kimberly Lanka
One immature male (2021-069) on 13 October 2021, Acadia: Crowley, 7199 S. Hwy. 13; Claire and Tom Hanson (ph).
Photo by Claire and Tom Hanson
One adult (2009-36) on 12 May 2009, Cameron: BRAS Peveto Woods Sanctuary. Most Members believed that the observer�s description of the plumage and song did not support identification as this species.
One male (2017-020) on 27 April 2017, Cameron: Johnsons Bayou, Peveto Woods Sanctuary; (ph). All Members believed that the photo best illustrated a male Baltimore Oriole. The more yellowish color of the plumage shown in the image was either aberrant plumage or a lighting/photo artifact. Otherwise, the overall plumage pattern was wrong for Scott's, especially the tail.
One female-plumaged (2021-034) on 24 April 2021, Cameron: Johnsons Bayou, Baton Rouge Audubon Society’s Peveto Woods Sanctuary. This would have represented the first spring occurrence for the state. The description focused mostly on the yellow (versus orange) coloration for the identification rather than plumage or structural characters to support identification as a Scott’s. One Member directed attention to a recent eBird record of a yellow Baltimore: http://www.losbird.org/lbrc/ scor17desormeauxa.pdf.