Mark Billings
Wildlife Biologist
Education
Research/Career Interests
I have been working on the San Clemente Loggerhead Shrike Monitoring and Release Project since 2022. I have worked with birds throughout southern California and taught English in Mexico City. I enjoy listening to Pink Floyd, playing chess, and reading, especially about physics and mathematics.
Publications
Billings, M. J., R. A. Erickson, G. Marron, E. D. Zamora-Hernandez. 2021. Year 2020: Baja California Peninsula. North American Birds (https://www.aba.org/baja-california-peninsula-year-2020/).
Erickson, R. A., G. Marron, E. D. Zamora-Hernandez, M. J. Billings. 2020. Notable bird observations for Baja California and Baja California Sur, August 2016 through December 2019, with an updated checklist for the states. North American Birds (https://www.aba.org/baja-california-fall-2016-fall-2019/).
Johnson, O., M. J. Billings. 2014. The Mangrove Yellow Warbler Reaches California. Western Birds 45:160–162.
Erickson, R. A., R. Carmona, G. Ruiz-Campos, M. J. Iliff, M. J. Billings. 2013. Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Baja California and Baja California Sur, Second Edition. North American Birds 66:582–613.
Billings, M. J., S. N. G. Howell, R. A. Erickson, M. Sadowski. 2011. Seabirds of Baja California Sur. North American Birds 65:186–189.
Iliff, M. J., R. A. Erickson, M. J. Billings. 2008. Reassessment of Tropical Parula Subspecies in Baja California Sur. Western Birds 39:69–81.
Erickson, R. A., M. J. Billings, R. Carmona, G. Ruiz-Campos. 2008. Baja California Peninsula. North American Birds 62:515–516.
Erickson, R. A., M. J. Billings, R. Carmona, G. Ruiz-Campos. 2008. Baja California Peninsula. North American Birds 61:307–309.
Hamilton, R. A., M. J. Billings, R. Carmona, G. Ruiz-Campos. 2007. Baja California Peninsula. North American Birds 61:331–333.
Billings, M. J., G. McCaskie. 2005. Hudsonian Godwit in Baja California. Western Birds 36:138–140.
Erickson, R. A., H. de la Cueva, M. J. Billings. Nesting Tricolored Blackbird Survey: Baja California 2007. Tricolored Blackbird Portal (https://tricolor.ice.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk3096/files/inlinefiles/Erickson%20et%20al%202007%20Baja%20California%20Tricolored%20Blackbird%20Survey_0.pdf).
Numerous photographs published in American Birds and North American Birds.