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Swedish Ornithological Society (SOF)
Swedish Ornithological Society (SOF) is the BirdLife Partner.
Founded in: 1945Members: 11,000
Staff: 24
Address: Sveriges Ornitologiska Förening, Stenhusa Gård, 380 62 Mörbylånga, Sweden
Email: birdlife@sofnet.org
Web: http://www.sofnet.org
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.
Recent Achievements
- Developed a monitoring system for forest birds, such as Three-toed Woodpecker, Marsh Tit and Willow Tit
- The following species were awarded protection from hunting: Pintail, Shoveller, Coot and Common Snipe
- During the annual Honey Buzzard Day funds were raised for production of a children’s bird book in Malta, a conservation project carried out by the Maltese BirdLife partner
- The development of an electronic, internet-based bird reporting system The Swallow used by thousands of Swedish birders to report sightings
- Worked with the BirdLife Partner in Latvia to establish eight regional groups
- With assistance published the first of three volumes of a national ringing recovery atlas