Sweden – Swedish Ornithological Society (SOF)

Mission of the organisation

Three goals of equal importance:

• Bird conservation
• To carry out investigation and documentation
• To promote interest in birds and birdwatching

Key Activities

• Run conservation issues, both national and partly-international
• Publish three magazines and various books
• Run the Ottenby Bird Observatory and a Nature Centre at the same spot (c.200, 000 visitors every summer)
• Sell books and binoculars in the society's nature bookshop
• Support 24 regional branches
• Invititation to travel with the SOF-travel agency;
• Carry out inventories at different levels, with focus on a single species, area or as monitoring;
• Run and improve Homepage;
• Undertake of bird reporting through a new web-based reporting system;
• Serve as a partner within BirdLife, and as such give support work to Latvia;
• Run activities for younger birdwatchers.