smartest birds there are.
I had a buddy Jim VanBelle that had one also. The darned thing would steal anythng shiny it could lay its little beak on, money, car keys, silver ware etc.
We could never find the stuff as its wings were not clipped and it could fly just fine.
One day we saw it grab something or other and Jim's dad was there. We took off and followed that black devil all the way to the Golf Course. It flew way up in a tree and dropped the booty against the tree where a big branch came out.
Jim's dad told him to shinny up that tree and get what ever the bird stole. Up he went and when he got there he started throwing down all the stuff that the devil had stolen over the summer. There was a depression there and the crow used it for a stash.
Jim's dad clipped the birds wings after that so it could not fly. I think he only clipped one but that is enough. The bird still had the run of the yard but that was his downfall. It got out in the road and was squershed.