This is a really good watch:

http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/animals/tedtalks-the-amazing-intelligence-of-crows.html

I cant watch that vid while Im at work but a friend of mine who used to live in central Perth above a coffee shop used to get two crows come to his widow on a daily basis. At first the window was closed and we used to see the two birds come up to the window and look in.
One day when this happened, one of the crows started to tap on the window with its beak. So one day Luke decided to open the window to see if they would be brave enough to come in. They never came in, just hung around on the window sill tapping on the window frame.
So we started to feed them, just bits and pieces. They were bloody fussy!!

Just goes to prove that crows can train humans

As the crows would say: faaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrcccccccccc

Neat vid, thanks for sharing.

Many years ago when this Pup was a wee Puppee , the folks took us up to Ledgey during the school hollys - the old girl (may she RIP) had brought up one of Nan's fruitcakes and had put it out next to the stove hutch in the old Kombi .... we made the horrid mistake of leaving a window slightly ajar while we went down for a swim 'n dive - when we came back this bloody crow was inside the back of the Kombi rolling around cawing madly-feathers everywhere poo splattered into every corner all over mattresses,blankets,clothes,other foodstuffs-bloody everywhere!
The little swine was pissed as a newt on the grog old nan laced the cake with - it couldn't even stand up and just about the whole cake was gone and then back out again - bloody intelligent birds yeah! they know to look for every opening!

I reared a baby Jackdaw I took from the chimney when I was in the UK. Have also had two Magpies, obth named pew. All of them were extremely clever but the Magpies took the prize. If you can put up with the constant crying for food whenever they wee you when they are still young they perform the most astonishing stuff. I have seen one pulling another around the lawn on his back by the tail feathers. Another time two of them hanging by the beak from the lower branch of a shrub. Weird,

They were very protective as well. Mate always brought his sqash racket around!

Raising a baby chick is certainly hard work. My 1st Jackdaw (named Jack) was a little bit older than my second one (also named Jack) and he flew away when he was old enough.

There is a kid in Redcliffe that has a pet cockatiel that flies free in his garden. He says other escaped cockatiels occasionally come round his home. Jack needed an aviary for protection, too many cats in my neighborhood.

The magpies here certainly have front, so do some of the Kookaburras, I'll defiantly have a go at training some of these locals, but I not up for raising a chick again.