Escaped ostrich brings traffic to a halt on busy road in South Dakota: wild footage

Commuting is for the birds!

An ostrich ruffled feathers when it escaped from a trailer and strutted onto a busy road in South Dakota — bringing cars to a halt Tuesday, according to cops and wild footage.

The 7-foot-tall birdbrain pranced into the four-lane thoroughfare in Sioux Falls at around noon and stood cluelessly in the middle of traffic for several minutes, causing drivers to squawk, footage shows.

Some commuters slammed on their breaks while others hopped out of their cars and tried to coax the towering troublemaker away from traffic by offering it food.

The avian road hog was eventually captured by its out-of-state owner and returned to a trailer, where several other ostriches were being transported, according to a police spokesman.

“The ostrich suffered no injuries, appeared just fine by us and was back with its owner before we had to take over,” Thomas Rhoades, a Sioux Falls Animal Control officer, told the Argus Leader newspaper.

It wasn’t immediately clear where the flightless bird was being taken — or how long it flew the coop before capture.

With Post wires