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Romanian Ornithological Society (SOR)
Romanian Ornithological Society (SOR) is the BirdLife Partner
Founded in: 1990Members: 2,800
Staff: 6
Address: Str. Gheorghe Dima, 49/2, RO-3400 Cluj, Romania
Email: office@sor.ro
Web: http://www.sor.ro/
Mission of the organisation
To study and protect birds and the environment.
Key Activities
- Important Bird Areas: finding and describing new IBA's
- Bird monitoring: project started in 2000
- Study and conservation of threatened species: White-tailed Eagle, Pygmy cormorant, White-headed duck, Red-breasted goose, White stork
- Mid-winter waterfowl and goose count (Wetlands International programme)
- Educational activities most of them in schools
- Publishing of educational materials (posters, leaflets, Alcedo magazine)
- Publishing of scientific books
- Danube Delta conservation programme: a special programme dedicated to education/public awareness in the area of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve
- Consultant in ornithological/bird protection problems at a national level
Recent Achievements
- Held three camps, including a youth camp on `The Environment and Ecology' with an emphasis on ornithology
- Held a seminar with interested parties on the protection of White Stork populations in Romania, and continued to monitor populations of the species in the country
- Began a collaborative project on conservation of the Pygmy Cormorant. 80% of the European population of this species breed in the Danube Delta
- With sponsorship from the RSPB, built artificial nest sites for White-tailed Eagles in the Danube Delta
- Revived the traditional celebration of Romania's Bird Day on 1 April
- Founded a new branch in Ineu-Arad county, western Romania
- Published, with financial support from the RSPB and other sources, the first-ever Romanian language field guide to birds.