The Bluesfest killdeer is settling in to its new home.
A painstaking process of slowly moving the plover’s eggs was completed Wednesday morning.
Environment Canada gave Bluesfest permission to move the killdeer nest at LeBreton Flats to a nearby "suitable habitat."
The four eggs of a mother killdeer have not yet hatched, and the music festival's main stage needs to be built where they were nesting.
The killdeer is protected under the Migratory Birds Convention Act.
Monika Melichar, with the Woodlands Wildlife Sanctuary in Minden, Ont., drove to Ottawa to help move the eggs. They were placed in a small, imitation nest and carefully moved one metre at a time, roughly every hour.
The nest was moved about seven metres Tuesday evening. Movement was a bit quicker in the morning, with the eggs placed in their new home, about 25 metres away from where the main stage will go, by about 9:00 a.m. Wednesday.
So far, it appears the mother bird has not abandoned the nest, which some experts feared was a possibility.
The festival did have a back-up plan, should the adult killdeer choose to abandon the eggs. They would have been taken back to Minden with Melichar, where they would have been incubated until they hatched, with the chicks released into the wild shortly afterward.