Commuters on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia had no choice but to reach for their camera phones when an injured hawk caused traffic jam for on Thursday morning.

The 8-week-old female red-tail hawk, which was found with a broken wing on the highway, required a rescue effort that contributed to delays of about 15 minutes.

According to AP reports, a team from Pennsylvania Game Commission rescued the bird at about 9:30 am and took it to the Webbed Foot Wildlife Clinic. The bird will be treated or euthanized, depending on the severity of its injury.

It is assumed that the hawk was probably hurt when it hit a vehicle moving at a very high speed or flew too close to speeding traffic and rolled. The Red-tailed Hawk is a medium-sized bird of prey, one of three species colloquially known in the United States as the "chickenhawk."

The red-tail hawk is found throughout North America from western Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies, and is one of the most common birds in North America.