Patrick Bergier was born in Provence, France, and graduated from a French Engineering School. he has a lifelong interest in the birds of the Mediterranean. he spent three years in Morocco working as an engineer in Rabat when he became involved with the study of Moroccan birds, and has subsequently visited the country a number of times. He has published many papers, his main interest being the distribution of birds and their breeding biology. Patrick is a founder member of Centrale Ornithologique Marocaine and a member of the Moroccan Rare Birds Committee (MRBC).