The Kabli Bird Station is one of the oldest continuously operating migration research stations in northern Europe, set up in 1969 in a converted farmhouse just behind the beach. The station catches, bands, and releases tens of thousands of birds each autumn during the migration peak — pied flycatchers, chaffinches, willow warblers, robins — and runs a smaller spring operation in May.
Visitors are welcome to come watch the banding work between mid-August and mid-October, when researchers are usually on site from dawn until late morning. A wooden observation tower next to the station gives a wide view over the coastal reed beds and the open bay. The station also runs occasional public open days when you can hold a banded bird before its release. Bring binoculars; this is genuinely one of the best birdwatching spots on the Baltic.