Vendor Marketplace
The Urban Birding Festival Vendor Marketplace will be open from 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday 9/19 and Sunday 9/20.
This year we’ll have two rooms! We’ll be in the Lunchbox Room on the first floor and in the South Gallery on the second floor at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.
Festival registrants will be able to access both the museum and the marketplace with their badge (Saturday and Sunday only).
Non-festival registrants can also visit the vendor marketplace. However, you will need to pay the museum’s admission fee in lieu of being a festival registrant.
The front entrance of the museum is wheelchair accessible and is equipped with activation push buttons. The second floor is accessible by elevator. For more information, see the Museum’s Accessibility Resources.
2026 Vendors
Click the links below to preview and support our 2026 vendors!
Birding & Advocacy
Valley Nature Center - Spring Chirp
Many of our sponsors will also be in the marketplace - check them out here!
Optics Vendors
Vortex Optics - Birds & Brews / Apex Sponsor
Kowa American Corp - Metropolitan Sponsor
Land Sea and Sky - Warbler Sponsor
Swarovski Optik - Warbler Sponsor
