Marc Gilles, Author at British Ornithologists' Union

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Marc Gilles

Marc is a Postdoc at the Department of Behavioural Ecology at Bielefeld University (Germany), where he investigates the functions of bird odour and olfaction.

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Sniff test for plover chicks

By Marc Gilles|2025-03-31T16:41:10+00:0031 Mar 2025|breeding biology, early-career researcher, shorebirds|

Can chicks recognise their parents by smell?

Does preen oil matter for incubation?

By Marc Gilles|2025-03-24T18:17:03+00:0017 Feb 2025|breeding biology, early-career researcher, shorebirds|

Kentish plovers show no sex difference in preen oil — but why?

The smell of flycatchers

By Marc Gilles|2023-07-17T11:43:51+00:0020 Jul 2023|avian biology, passerines, physiology, plumage, reproductive signalling, woodland birds|

Chemical analysis reveals social information in preen oil

Bird odour: camouflage or communication?

By Marc Gilles|2022-03-08T18:25:16+00:0014 Mar 2022|avian biology, breeding biology, camouflage, communication, early career, early-career researcher, ecology, ECR, evolution, incubation, nest predation, nesting success, pair communications, physiology, plumage, reproductive signalling, smell|

Investigating the olfactory functions of preen oil in birds