The "Bird the Boonies" hat cannot be purchased; it can only be earned and always has a tale to go with it.

Our "Bird the Boonies" hats are found atop pairs of binoculars and heads of adventurers around the world - send us your picture!
 
Amazon River - Aaron Lang birding for Goatsuckers
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Ecuador - Dave Haenni, Jim and Nancy DeWitt and Jeff Blunt
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Barbuda Island, Carribean -Lesser Antilles - Dave Quady
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Sienna Italy - Sid Friedman and Marilyn Walster
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Homer, Alaska - Willy Dunne is never caught without his binoculars.
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Ireland - Sara Moorehead on Sheep's Head Peninsula, County Cork.
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Broome, Australia - Tim Lawton
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Bhutan - Dave Porter and Bob Dittrick dressed to party.
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Peru - Macchu Picchu - Eric Myers birding the ruins
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Africa - Kenya - Chuck Bell giving his "Bird the Boonies" hat national exposure.
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Texas - Father Tom and his Posse plotting their next birding assault, Rio Grande Valley.
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Cuba - Dave Quady in Hemingway's old bar.
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Masagascar - Bill Brooks birding the Berenty Reserve.
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Oregon's Eagle Cap Wilderness - Charlie Quinn birding the boonies.
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West Africa - Lokoli Village - Benin - David Wigglesworth packing with an audience.
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Botswana Africa - Okavanga Delta - David Wigglesworth working the Delta.
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Mexico - Monte Alban Oaxaca - Dorothy Copp birding the ruins
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Sri Lanka - Ruth Brooks
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California - Dave Quady insisting birds are cool at San Franciso Marina Middle School.
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Cuba - Deanna MacPhail birding the Bay of Pigs.
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Oakland, California - Dave Quady on the bird count - "Bird the Boonies" makes the newspaper.
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Bhutan - Lisa, Chozang, Bob, and Hishey birding Paro.
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Western Ireland - George Matz and Jeannie Woodring hiking on the Dingle Peninsula.
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Harry & Deborah Whitehill birding Macchu Picchu, Peru
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Florida - Luddy Lambertson finds the Florida Scrub Jay or is it the other way around?
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India - Jim Regali birding and looking for the large dangerous mammals in Namdapha Tiger Reserve.
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Key West, Florida - Joe Greig going to the limits of the ABA area.
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Galapagos - Nancy DeWitt sharing a driftwood moment with a Swallow-tailed Gull at Darwin Bay.
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Kenya - Hollis Brooks
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Napali Coast, Kauai'i, Hawaii - Aaron Lang
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Peruvian Amazon - Joe Greig
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Chile - Larry Sall birding equipped.
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Mexico,Baja - Bahia Tortuga - John Dukat pelagic birding
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South Georgia Island - Larry Sall visits one of his heroes Ernest Shackleton.
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Antarctica - Larry Sall bonding with penguins at Port Lockroy.
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South Africa - David Wigglesworth runs out of birdable land at the Cape of Good Hope.
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China - Marshall Malden birds the Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center in Chengdu.
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Belize - Mimi Calter chilling at the Bird's Eye View Lodge.
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Belize - Altun Ha - Phillip Eager birding the ruins.
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Tanzania - Sarah Cohen in the Serengeti
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Ecuador - Chuck and Nancy Bell
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France - Larry Sall
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Kenya - David Wigglesworth and Rayna Swanson suspended over Mida Creek.
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RECORD - Most damaged "Bird the Boonies" hat still in use- David Wigglesworth.
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