This is the moment that a parrot played peekaboo at CCTV operators as it perched high on a traffic camera on an Brazilian motorway.
The turquoise-colored Amazon parrot, Amazona aestiva (Amazona turquet), was filmed peering into the lens while he was on the busy BR-116 route close to Curitiba in Parana on October 29.
Arteris Planalto Sul, a road management company, shared the hilarious footage via Twitter. It has been viewed more 262,000 times.
This is the moment when a parrot sits on a traffic camera on an overcrowded Brazilian motorway and plays peekaboo with CCTV operators
The curious bird enters the frame from right, perched on the camera at the BR-116 motorway in Parana near Curitiba.
The footage shows the curious parrot’s head emerging from the top right corner of the frame, peering into the camera before disappearing abruptly.
A few seconds later, the colorful bird appears from above the camera, hanging upside down, obscuring most motorway traffic.
The parrot lives up to its reputation as playful and curious.
The Amazona aestiva is a friendly bird that is easy to handle and can talk.
The playful parrot isn’t the only bird that has shown an interest in Brazilian motorway cameras over recent months.
Two toucans were captured pecking at a camera on the streets of Campinas in Sao Paulo in April.
This is the moment two inquisitive Toucans were caught standing in front a traffic camera before trying to eat the device in Brazil.
The toucans were photographed walking around and preening in front the camera on the SP-330 motorway, in the south-eastern Brazilian city of Campinas
Footage taken from the traffic camera shows the appearance of one toucan on the railing right next to the camera
Footage from the traffic camera shows the toucan perched on the railing near the camera.
A second toucan appears about halfway through the footage and takes it in turns to eat at the camera with their long orange-colored beaks.
They appear to be toco toucans, which prefer open habitats and have benefitted from widespread deforestation in tropical South America.
Two curious seagulls were famous for landing on top London’s traffic camera several times in 2019.
The 2019 East London junction camera captured the seagulls.
The birds were filmed for two days as they walked around in front of the camera at an intersection on the approach to Blackwall Tunnel in Poplar.
Transport bosses claimed that the seagulls were referred to as Graeme or Steve by their owners.
Seagulls have photobombed traffic cameras in Glasgow before – once near the airport on April 2014.