CARLOS A. BOTERO

 

 

DEPARTMENT of NEUROBIOLOGY and BEHAVIOR &

LABORATORY of ORNITHOLOGY, CORNELL UNIVERSITY

 

Last update July 2006

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Publications

 

Botero, C. A., Riveros, J. M.* and Vehrencamp, S. L. Relative threat and recognition ability in the responses of tropical mockingbirds to song playback. 2007. Animal Behaviour (in press).

 

Botero, C. A. and S. L. Vehrencamp. 2007. Responses of tropical mockingbirds to variation in within-song and between-song versatility. The Auk. 124(1): 185-196.

 

Botero, C. A. 2002. Is the White-Flanked Antwren (Formicariidae: Myrmotherula axillaris) A Nuclear Species In Mixed-Species Flocks? A Field Experiment. The Journal of Field Ornithology.73(1): 74-81.

 

Botero, C. A. 2001. First specimen of the Ecuadorian Cacique (Icterinae: Cacicus sclateri) from Colombia with notes on its nesting behavior. The Wilson Bulletin. 113(3): 327-328.

 

Cadena, C.D., M. Alvarez, J.L. Parra, I. Jiménez, C.A. Mejía, M. Santamaría, A.M. Franco, C.A. Botero, G.D. Mejía, A.M. Umaña, A. Calixto, J. Aldana and G.A. Londoño. 2000. The birds of CIEM, Tinigua National Park, Colombia: an overview of 13 years of ornithological research. Cotinga 13: 46-54.

 

 

Manuscripts in press

 

E. Amat, J. Olano*, F. Forero and C.A. Botero.  Notes on Philornis vulgaris (Diptera: Muscidae) in nests of the tropical mockingbird (Mimus gilvus) in central Colombia. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (in press).

 

 

Manuscripts in review

 

Botero, C. A., A. E. Mudge, A. M. Koltz, W. M. Hochachka, and S. L. Vehrencamp.  How reliable are the methods for estimating repertoire size in songbirds? A case study with tropical mockingbirds

 

Botero, C. A., P. L. Jones†, T. Kubinec‡, E. Aguilar**, and S. L. Vehrencamp. What is the function of male-male countersinging in the tropical mockingbird?

 

Botero, C. A., C. Infante*, J. Olano*, F. Forero, and Sandra L. Vehrencamp. Effects of social environment on mate guarding, singing, and fighting in male tropical mockingbirds.

 

Rossman, R.† and C. A. Botero. Singing ability is correlated to age and dominance status in communal breeding tropical mockingbirds.

 

 

Other manuscripts in the works

 

 

Botero, C. A., and A. E. Mudge†. Gender specific effects of song rate in the responses of tropical mockingbirds to song playback.

 

Caro, L.*, C. A. Botero, and V. Ferretti. Extra-pair paternity in the tropical mockingbird.

 

* undergraduate student at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) at the time of this study.

** undergraduate student at Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia at the time of this study.

† undergraduate student at Cornell University at the time of this study

‡ undergraduate student at SUNY Cortland at the time of this study