Santiago Villa     Member of SEO/BirdLife, the local environmental association ADENEX (from Extremadura) and co-founder of the SEO-Cáceres group, Santiago runs Spainbirds Nature Tours since the beginning in 1999. He has also led tours for some of the well known UK tour companies such as Sunbird, Wings, Heatherlea, The Travelling Naturalist and Celtic Bird Tours as well as for ABA (American Birding Association) and several RSPB local groups (SE Hertfordshire, Bristol...). Santiago has also taken part as an expert in Ecoturism in meetings and conferences in different localities of Spain such as Madrid, Cádiz, Trujillo, Monfragüe and Doñana, as well as in Lisbon (Portugal). He is as well the principal leader for the SEO/BirdLife trips organized in Spain and has guided tours in Morocco, Chile, Argentina and Scotland. Paul Hackett     Paul Hackett, one of the UK’s leading bird digiscopers, has been at the forefront of the digiscoping revolution and has pioneered many of the techniques and best practice used to great success today. As well as having his work widely published in all the leading birding journals such as Birding World and Birdwatch, Paul’s bird images and footage have been used by both regional and national news services. Perhaps Paul’s most famous image was his portrait of the pair of Bee-eaters that bred in County Durham in 2002 that made it onto the front cover of the Daily Telegraph. A regular at Birdfair, Paul has held many digiscoping lectures and field demonstrations. Most recently, Paul organised and led the world’s first digiscoping holiday that was held in Extremadura (Spain) in 2005. Since then Paul and Santi have been leading together our digiscoping trips (Doñana 2006, Extremadura & Gredos 2007, Picos de Europa 2008). Juan M. Soria     Juan M. is nowadays the responsible of the Andará Rutas S.L., an Spanish company specialist in offering hiking trips all around Spain. He was also founder in 1995 of the "El Club Viajero" Mountain Association having a deep knowledge of the Spanish mountains and its nature. Juan M. has been leading trips from 1995 with a total of more than 500 guided tours with groups having organized also trips to France, Portugal and Morocco. Amongst the most important travel agencies who has been working for are the El Corte Inglés, Marsans (in Spain), Exodus (England) and Nomad (South Africa). His love by nature and hiking led him to travel throughly the Himalayas, Kenya, South Africa and Costa Rica. Jose Antonio Sánchez      Born in Seville, José A. Sánchez studied Biology at Seville's University. For the next 10 years he organized walking a nature tours all around Andalusia. In 1992 he moved to El Rocío to work as an educational monitor in Doñana National Park for several years; it was then when he got interested on birds and involved in numerous activities related to the local avifauna with the Doñana Biological Station. He spent 3 years living in the UK and travelling around Asia and became a fluent English speaker. Back in Doñana he has been working as a nature and birdwatching guide for the company Discovering Doñana, which he now runs, since 2000. He has been guiding independent travellers and working as a local guide for Naturetrek, Travel Naturalist, Greentours, local RSPB clubs, Natura Aragon, Reisen in die Natur, Swiss Orni-Group and other specialized companies. He has achieved a good reputation as a bird guide in Doñana.