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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 
Crows are smart... we have a couple that hang around our place and the Mrs pretends to throw food (but it's just what ever leaf she finds) at them.
They look at us as if we were morons 
. (Loggy/Soggy no comment pls)
But I've noticed the crows were I am now don't make the same calls as where I was before.
The last place they made this baby crying noise... and 10km away they make a Juliar noise.
So I think they have local dialects.
Where as the Cockatoos seem to scream the same crap at you... but they look way cooler.
PS: I just bought some binoculars to observe birds 
... Canon 12x36 IS II
As the crows would say: faaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrcccccccccc 
Neat vid, thanks for sharing.
geez i saw two crows on the tv ringing a blokes doorbell,then when he went to answer it,they wernt there. he goes out to the back but the cheeky buggers had locked his glass sliding door. the man then walked into the door cause he didnt know it was shut by the crows. they sat in the tree and laughed at him. they were speaking in english as well. very clever with a good sense of humour
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 used to own a crow (he was a Jackdaw)when I was a kid, mate stole the chick from a nest. It could speak English very clearly. I used to take him for walks/ a fly. He was a pretty cool pet for a kid. Couple of years later I got sent to bording school and the bird died of separation anxiety.
I reckon he was as smart as a parrot. Not too many parrorts in the English countyside, so never owned one of them.
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!
live across from a park & got seven (more on the way rite now) maggies that know my wheels - I pull up and the little raptors are already landing on the roof , they dig beef mince mostly and if I don't feed them they'll start prodding the back door and kitchen windows until they is fed.
they never forget a face and won't swoop the pup at all,yet anyone else even if they are with me at the time are open targets
noisy yes but there's no bugs around the eaves - bonusssss
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.
