Basically it's a 30 minute report on just how fucking smart these fucks are, their brains are a similar size in ratio with that of chimps and I'm sure you've seen videos on youtube of them stealing fish from overnight fishing holes and using tools, the lady goes and interviews various university folk doing cognitive experiments with them, there'a bit about how they track eye movements which is fascinating. When they're preparing and burying food for winter they'll often go back and re-hide their bounty if they know that other birds are watching them while they're burying it.
Anyway, I found this TED talk from a guy that's trained wild birds to use vending machines so they'll go round picking up change and deposit it in his machine as reward for food.
I want a pet Jackdaw even more now
You should totally try to build the vending machine phant, the blueprints are to be found on that dude's site if i recall (though a quick google yielded no results, sadly). I'll try to give the audio a listen later, but seeing as it's BBC it's probably set up so that dirty foreigners can't steal it or something.