Harteman Wildfowl Aviaries
Spread the bird!
Welcome to Harteman Wildfowl Aviaries, a private facility in the Netherlands with a focus on the aviculture and conservation of waterfowl. Harteman Wildfowl contributes to the global knowledge and conservation of the world's ducks, geese and swans by sharing hands-on experience and participating in international ex-situ breeding programmes.
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
- Sir David Attenborough
Highlights
Children visit our birds
2025-09-11 13:45
School visit in our garden
September 11th 2025 | Today we received over 30 primary school children, to visit our aviaries and birds. It was much fun to tour them around and answer their genuine questions.
Our aviaries house over twenty species of birds, including species that are threatened with excinction. We participate in several breeding programmes such as EAZA's Endangered Species Programme for white-winged duck, Baer's pochard and M...
Best practise guidelines
2025-08-05 19:52
EAZA's WWD Best Practice Guidelines
Amsterdam, August 5th 2025 | 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗔𝗭𝗔 𝗕𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲-𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲!
The white-winged duck (WWD), Asarcornis scutulata, is one of the most threatened duck species in the world. Its population has largely disappeared in the last century and the species is likely to be reclassified as "Critically Endangered" category in the light of the latest field surveys.
The EAZA...
Twenty years since internship Sylvan Heights
2025-05-05 13:30
Twenty years since internship Sylvan Heights
This month marks twenty (20!) years since I did my internship at Sylvan Heights Waterfowl - now better known as Sylvan Heights Bird Park. The bird park was nothing more than plans and dreams at the time, but the breeding farm alone made it worth spending six weeks with Mike, Ali, Brent and the Sylvan Heights family. What a great time I had there and what a lot I learned. I am still so grateful...
Continuation of sharing data in ZIMS.
2025-02-07 21:42
Harteman Wildfowl continues to share data in ZIMS.
February 7th 2025 | Harteman Wildfowl is pleased to announce the continuation of sharing data in ZIMS (Zoological Informational Management Software), the world’s leading zoological recording keeping system, powered by Species360.
As a conservation breeding facility we focus on education and conservation of endangered bird species. Harteman Wildfowl is instrumental in saving one of the wo...
