Canada Largest Urban Outdoor Music Festival BlueFest
Canada Largest Urban Outdoor Music Festival BlueFest: A bird´s nest in an Ottawa park has came close to derailing preparations for one of #Canada´s largest urban outdoor music festivals.
In less than 2 weeks, an estimated 300,000 music fans are expected to flock to the capital city´s riverfront Lebreton Flats neighborhood for the annual Bluesfest.
Tickets have been on sale for the July 5th to 15th event, which this year features headliners including Beck, Bryan Adams, the Foo Fighters and Shawn Mendes.
But a killdeer, named for its penetrating squawk that sounds eerily like “kill deer,” has laid four eggs in the area where the main stage is to stand, bringing preparations to an abrupt halt.
Its numbers having been halved since the 1970s, the diminutive brown and white birds and their nests are protected under Canada´s migratory birds law.
It´s not clear when the bird laid its eggs, which typically have an incubation period of 24 to 28 days.
“This is one of the most challenging problems we´ve been presented with, but we feel we can work through this,” Bluesfest executive director Mark Monahan told reporters.
If the situation was not resolved quickly, he added, the festival which organizers say contributes more than $30 million to the local economy could face “some delays that could start to snowball.”
Monahan said possibilities included moving the nest or gathering up the eggs and sending them to a wildlife center for hatching.
Wildlife experts, however, warned against disturbing the nest, saying it could lead the parents to abandon the eggs.
The government issued a permit “to allow the relocation of the nest to nearby suitable habitat,” Caroline Theriault, spokeswoman for Canada´s environment minister.
“The relocation will allow the nest to remain and eggs to hatch in the natural environment. In the event of nest abandonment, eggs will be transported to a rehabilitation facility to provide the best probability for survival,” she added.
On social media, meanwhile, people rallied for and against the bird, some calling the killdeer the “most entitled annoying bird on earth,” while others snickered at its security detail.
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