Nicolantonio Agostini graduated at the University of Parma in 1987 with thesis on the predatory behaviour of Common buzzard and Kestrel in captivity. Since 1989 he has been studying raptor migration in Italy, Tunisia, Malta and Greece. He was active between 1984 and 1996 in protectionist activities against poaching at the Strait of Messina together with LIPU (Birdlife Italy). At the moment he is achieving a Ph.D at the University of Pavia. He is author of more than 70 ornithological issues and collaborates as referee with the following journals: Ardea, Avocetta, European Journal of Wildlife Research, Ibis, Journal of Field Ornithology, Journal of Raptor Research, Journal of Zoology.

Michele Panuccio has been involved in raptor migration researches since 1998. The title of his graduation thesis at the University of Camerino was “To cross the sea or to follow the peninsula? Strategies of migrating hawks through the Central Mediterranean”. Now he is a Ph.D. student at the University of Pavia following a research path named "The sea like natural barrier: compared analysis of wintering distribution and flyways of migrating raptors through the central-eastern Mediterranean". Authors of about 40 ornithological pubblications.

Ugo Mellone has been studying raptor migration since the 2003. Graduated at the University of Pavia with a thesis concerning the biology of Golden eagle in the Alps. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Alicante (Spain). The subject of his research is the migration of Eleonora's falcon, studied by means of satellite telemetry.

Giuseppe Lucia was born in Venosa (Southern Italy) in 1982. He started studying raptor migration in 2005 in Southern Italy and Greece. He graduated at the University of Pavia with a thesis on Honey buzzard migration at the island of Antikythera. At the moment he's collaborating with other naturalists in the draft of the action plans of Italian SIC (European Important Site) in the Alps.

Gianpasquale Chiatante has been studying raptor migration since 2004. He is currently a student at the University of Pavia (Italy). The subject of his thesis is the habitat selection of Lesser grey shrike and Woodchat shrike in Apulia (Southern Italy).