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Information - Sõrve Observatory / Lighthouse

Migration site Sõrve Observatory / Lighthouse Contacts timo.nuoranen@gmail.com, annika.forsten@gmail.com Contacts Web site https://vironlintuseura.com/sorven-lintuasema/ Last count  21 October 2024 Observation hours 2,422:23 observation hours, 11 year

lat: 57.9112, lng: 22.0559

Description

Sõrve Peninsula is a migration hot-spot, at the far south west of Saaremaa island - ideally located for seeing birds on the Baltic migration route and for picking up rarities, especially in the autumn when birds are funneled into the peninsula as they pass south.

Sõrve observatory was founded in 1998. The main activity at SBO is counting migrants – in autumn time over a million birds fly south along the peninsula. From May till October over a hundred species can normally be seen on any given day. Eleven Estonian firsts were recorded in Sõrve. More information here: https://vironlintuseura.com/in-english/

Location

The road 77 from Kuressaare is 50 km long and paved. The observatory is one kilometer north from the lighthouse. If you take the bus from Kuressaare then come to Iide which still leaves a 9 km walk to the observatory, and bit more to the lighthouse.