Manuel Schweizer, Raffael Aye and Tobias Roth are a trio of ornithologists from Switzerland, based at the University of Berne. They are experts on the birds of Central Asia, with considerable experience in the field.Among their many notable achievements was the discovery of the breeding grounds of Large-billed Reed Warbler in Tajikistan.
J�r�me Gu�lat has been leading the GIS team at the Swiss Ornithological Institute for more than 6 years. He uses spatial statistics to provide guidance to applied conservation problems. He also teaches a short course on spatial and Bayesian statistics.