Lights, camera, QUACKTION: Meet the animals caught on camera

Police say the duck was possibly a repeat offender after being snapped in the same spot in 2018

A traffic camera in Switzerland has caught the same lawbreaker travelling almost twice the speed limit on two occasions - but the culprit was not a human in a car - it was a duck.

Local police say they spotted the mallard (a wild duck) going 52km per hour in a 30km zone on 13 April this year.

But they also caught a very similar-looking duck triggering the traffic camera's speed alert system on the same date in 2018.

What's more, the duck was going the same speed on both occasions.

Locals have been wondering if the feathered felon is trying to break its own personal speed record, and some have even speculated that the police are attempting to prank the residents of Koeniz.

But authorities say traffic cameras are tested each year and pictures cannot be tampered with.

Safe to say there are no actual laws about ducks (or any other animals) speeding on public roads, so the mallard will not face any criminal charges.

Other birds caught on camera...

In 2019, traffic officers in London had two uninvited assistants helping them keep an eye on the A102 - also known as Brunswick Road. They were even given names.

A spokesperson from Transport for London said: "Our cameras usually give us a bird's eye view of traffic across London, but we'd like to thank our new colleagues Graeme and Steve for helping out at beak times".

In 2023, Rodney the emu was spotted on a doorbell camera near his home in Kent after he had escaped.

Police officers were called to help with his rescue after he looked like he wanted to visit his neighbour's property.

Rodney's owner Sarah said she was "delighted to have Rodney back home again".

She said the six-month-old bird escaped after one of her children let him out of the garden by mistake.

This parrot decided to play peekaboo with a CCTV camera in Brazil.

The traffic monitoring company posted the footage from a camera on a highway in Curitiba on social media, calling it a "special visit."

The bird seen in the footage is a turquoise-fronted Amazon parrot, also known in scientific communities as Amazona aestiva.