My name is Marco Dragonetti, born in Milan (Italy) April 13th 1950. I studied biology at the State University of Milan, where I graduated in 1973 with a work about the pollution of subalpine lakes in Northern Italy. I worked for ten years in a research laboratory of a pharmaceutical company. In 1983 I left Milan and I went to Tuscany ( a central Italy region ), where now I live with my family ( my wife and my three daughters ). Here I own a farm, where I work, near a small village.
I'm an amateur ornithologist since I was fifteen and I like to collect data, observations and make studies about the birds which live around me. After 2001 I focused my ornithological interest in bird song study and avian bioacoustics. I found very useful the use of spectrograms to achieve a better knowledge of the communication between birds; this idea led to the website you are now visiting. With some other friends I'm member of a local ornithological group that is mainly devoted to study local bird species, population trends and bird biology. This group works in collaboration with the Museum of Natural History of Grosseto.