Watch: Swan stops traffic on four-lane motorway
CCTV footage showed a swan bringing a four-lane stretch of a busy motorway to a standstill.
National Highways said the bird wandered across the M1 near Northampton last month.
Traffic officer Adrian Woods helped to move it to a small lake off junction 16[1], resulting in "a happy ending all round".
He and a colleague were dispatched from the nearby Watford Gap outstation when the incident was reported at about 10:30 GMT on 19 November.
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