About the collection

Our collection | Conservation breeding

Harteman Wildfowl is a small private non-profit collection of waterfowl, runned by Jan Harteman. What started of as a hobby grew into a lifelong passion for waterfowl and their conservation. I share this passion through my personal website and social media channels, as well as amongst other things, being a board member of the International Wild Waterfowl Association and Aviornis International Netherlands

Mission statement

I want to contribute to knowledge, education and conservation of the world's waterfowl. For some species I contribute by being part of EAZA’s Ex-situ Programmes (EEP ) and monitoring programmes (Mon-T); as well as directly contributing to ex-situ conservation by keeping and breeding threatened species in my private collection – keeping breeding records, gathering data and images about these species in my private collection – and educating the general public through my personal website, social media channels, magazines and the IUCN-SSC Threatened Waterfowl Specialists Group. 

Being part of the EAZA's EEP studbooks, my facilities have been checked by the studbook keepers to verify the quality of the aviaries. Alongside I agreed to fulfil obligations like annual reporting and data sharing through ZIMS*, medical research, post mortem research and keeping offspring at our location until the studbook keeper has found a suitable new collection. As a private aviculturist I am reaching out to these professional EEP programs and want to be a part of them, and species conservation in general, for the long run. 

Our birds

Currently, we have the following species at our facilities (January 2022).

These animals are not available for sale. 

Anseriformes

1. Magpie goose, Anseranas semipalmata - LC
2. Black-bellied whistling duck, Dendrocygna autumnalis - LC
3. Fulvous whistling duck, Dendrocygna bicolor - LC
4. Lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus - VU
5. White-winged duck, Asarcornis scutulata - EN, EAZA Ex situ Programme (EEP) 
6. Chiloé wigeon, Mareca sibilatrix (Anas sibilatrix) - LC
7. Laysan teal (Laysan duck), Anas laysanensis - CR
8. Meller's duck, Anas melleri - EN, EAZA Ex situ Programme (EEP) 
9. Madagascar teal (Bernier's teal), Anas bernieri - EN,  EAZA Ex situ Programme (EEP) 
10. Baer's pochard, Aythya baeri - CR, EAZA Ex situ Programme (EEP) 
11. New Zealand scaup, Aythya novaeseelandiae - LC

Non-Anseriformes

1. Australian crested pigeon, Ocyphaps lophotes - LC
2. Golden pheasant, Chrysolophus pictus - LC, EAZA Monitoring Programme (Mon-T) 
3. Temminck's tragopan, Tragopan temminckii - LC
4. Philby's partridge, Alectoris philbyi - LC
5. Gray-headed swamphen, Porphyrio poliocephalus - LC

Our facilities from above (August 2020). 

Layout of one of our aviaries (August 2021).

Aviaries (August 2021)

EAZA = European Association of Zoos and Aquaria

EEP = EAZA Ex situ Programme 

Mon-T = EAZA Monitored by Taxon Advisory Group 

ZIMS = Zoological Information Management Software by Species360.