Gould wrote 'Besides its love for the society of man, the popularity of the Jackdaw is enchanced by its graceful and buoyant flight round and about church and other towers, its loquacious cackling, the readiness with which it becomes domesticated, its power of imitating the human voice, and its droll and comical way.'

The adult birds are depicted among the Common Ivy.

DISTRIBUTION: Breeding in Eurasia from British Isles to southwest Siberia and south to northwest Africa across to west China. Some of Northern populations winter south to northern Arabia, southern Iran, central Pakistan and north and central India. In Britain continues to increase