August 6–10, 2025
Festival Links
FREE Community Nature Expo
All events occur in the Grand Ballroom of the festival venue, the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel—Reid Park.
Wednesday, August 6
- 4:00pm – 6:00pm – Nature Expo Open
- All festival registrants receive a “SWAG BAG” (contents to be unveiled here soon)
- Free to attend and everyone gets a daily raffle ticket to be drawn between 4:30pm – 6:00pm
- 4:30pm – 6:00pm—Opening Party sponsored by Vortex Optics
- Free Appetizers & Enjoy a free drink courtesy of Vortex Optics!
- Raffle Drawings for Prizes
- Nature Expo Opening
- Unveiling of Bird and Wildlife Big Boards
Thursday, August 7
- 12:00pm – 5:30pm—Nature Expo Open
- Free to attend and everyone gets a daily raffle ticket to be drawn between 4:30pm – 5:30pm
- 4:30pm – 5:30pm—Festival Celebration sponsored by BWD
- Meet some of the Tucson Bird Alliance & BWD Team
- Win a copy of BWD’s new book, Bird Watching for Dummies
- Free Appetizers & Cash Bar
- Raffle Drawings for Prizes
- Photos from Participants
- Update on Official Festival Bird & Wildlife Species Tally
Friday, August 8
- 12:00pm – 5:30pm—Nature Expo Open
- Free to attend and everyone gets a daily raffle ticket to be drawn between 4:30pm – 5:30pm
- 4:30pm – 5:30pm—Festival Celebration sponsored by Sabrewing Nature Tours
- David Lindo book signing
- Raffle Drawings for Prizes
- Free Appetizers & Cash Bar
- Photos from participants
- Update on Official Festival Bird & Wildlife Species Tally
Saturday, August 9
- 10:00am – 5:30pm—Nature Expo Open
- Free to attend and everyone gets a daily raffle ticket to be drawn between 3:30pm – 5:30pm
- 10:00am – 1:00pm—Reid Park Zoo with Live Animals!
- 10:00am – 5:00pm—Arizona Game & Fish with Live Raptors!
- 3:30pm – 5:30pm—Festival Celebration
- Raffle Drawings for Prizes
- Free Appetizers & Cash Bar
- Photos from Participants
- Final Official Festival Bird & Wildlife Species Tally
Exhibitors Include:
Presenting Sponsors:
- ZEISS
- Sabrewing Nature Tours
Associate Sponsors:
- Hawke Optics
- Naturalist Journeys
- Vortex Optics
Supporting Sponsors:
- American Birding Association
- Babita Tours
- Beaumont & Port Arthur Convention & Visitors Bureau
- East West Birding Tours
- Hawaii Bird Tours
- Icaro Birding Tours
- Kowa Optics
- Natural Selections Tours
- Summit Hut
- Town of Marana
- Visit Tucson
Contributing Sponsors:
- Apex Windows & Bath
- Canopy Family
- Fujifilm
- Land, Sea, & Sky
- Neblina Forest
- Swarovski Optik
- Victor Emanuel Nature Tours
- WINGS Birding Tours
More Festival Exhibitors:
- Ancillaerie
- Arizona Field Ornithologists
- Birdability
- Birding by Ear and Beyond
- The Birding Co-Op
- Bosque Winter Wings
- Drawing 10,000 Birds
- Elsa Jacklitch Photography
- Experience Nature Tours
- Explore in Focus
- Friends of Madera Canyon
- Habitat at Home
- Hunt’s Photo & Video
- International Hummingbird Society
- KS Nature Photography
- Lower Rio Grande Valley Nature Center
- Olympus OM System
- Pima County Master Naturalists
- Ray Brown’s Talkin’ Birds
- Renewal by Anderson
- Space Coast Birding & Wildlife Festival
- Splendido
- The Spark Bird Project
- Tamron
- Tucson Bird Alliance Nature Shop
- Western National Parks Association
- Wildside Nature Tours
FAMILY BIRDING DAY
Fun for the whole family!
Saturday, August 9, 8-10 am
Reid Park, Ramada 17
- Free food
- Face-painting
- Bird walks every half hour
- Mr. Nature’s Music Hour! Kindness, compassion, and mindfulness engagement through song, dance, and interactive music
- Hands-on learning activities for all ages
Purchase Your Favorite Bird at the Nature Expo!
We had almost 200 high quality wood bird figurines donated to us and they’ll be on display and for sale at the Festival. Most of them are from “Hummingbird Studio.”
Red-faced Warbler, Acorn Woodpecker, Many-banded Aracari, American Avocet, Kookaburra, Western Tanager—we have them all and many, many more! We’ll be selling them starting at only $40.
Find them in the back of the Nature Expo!
