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, Aviornis International Netherlands and Taxon Advisory Groups. 

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 ); 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 (February 2024).

These animals are not available for sale. 

Our facilities from above (August 2023). 

Layout of one of our aviaries (August 2021).

Aviaries (August 2023)

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. 

*Conservation status by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): 

LC = Least Concern

NT = Near Threatened

VU = Vulnerable

EN = Endangered

CR = Critically Endangered