This red-shouldered hawk was an early-bird holiday traveler when it got stuck in a Penn Station transit booth Sunday night before being rescued by elite Emergency Service Unit cops.

MTA employees watched the raptor chase a pigeon into the otherwise-empty booth — where information clerks generally sit — just before 10 o’clock Sunday night and called cops.

Detective Joseph Bucchignano showed up and found that the poor bird was trapped. He pulled it out of the booth, caged it, and brought it to the West Side Highway, where he released it over the Hudson River.

NYPD Special Ops tweeted out a photo of Bucchignano with the bird after he made the grab.

“Meet Penn Station’s Early Bird traveler,” the photo was captioned.

“This Red Shouldered Hawk attempted to beat the holiday rush last night but missed the train.”

A source said, “The officers used their eagle eye to take the hawk into custody and set him free.”

Even though all ended well for the hawk, we know what you’re thinking — but there was no word on whether the pigeon survived the encounter and joined the many other rail birds that flock to the station.