Tiny bird threatens one of Canada's biggest music festivals

The killdeer, a protected bird that weighs less than five ounces, laid eggs in area where the main stage will be for Ottawa's Bluesfest

A diminutive bird known for its shrill, high pitched call is threatening to derail one of Canada's biggest music festivals after it built a nest in the same location as the main stage was slated to be erected.

The first hint of trouble for Ottawa's Bluesfest, an outdoor festival that draws some 300,000 people each year in the nation's capital, came last week after workers at the site stumbled across an agitated killdeer, a brown and white bird that weighs less than five ounces.