Source: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/carwash.asp

Bill Dougherty at Magic Wand Inc. installs and maintains car
wash machines.  Bill's company installed a car wash system
in Fredericksburg, Virginia.  Now, understand that these are
complete systems, including the money changer and money taking  machines.  After Mr. Dougherty discovered the Fredericksburg
car wash machine was coming up several hundred dollars short
per week, he setup a surveillance camera to catch the thieves.
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That's a bird sitting on the change slot of the machine.

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The bird had to go down into the machine, and back up & inside to get to the money!

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That's three quarters he has in his beak!  Another  amazing thing is that it was not just one bird -- there were several working  together.

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Not only were the "thieves" who were stealing the quarters of the avian variety; they were working in tandem to do so: one bird would go up inside the machine to jimmy coins loose, and the other birds would grab them and fly off with them.

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Starlings, the birds pictured here, are often attracted to bright, shiny objects and will collect them for nesting or mate-attraction purposes whenever the opportunity presents itself. Most likely one or more starlings was attracted by the glint of overlooked quarters in the change cup and made off with them; other starlings saw where the quarters were coming from and imitated the behavior, learning in the process how to work as teams to retrieve coins from inside the machine itself.

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And you thought you had seen and heard of everything by now!!!

And to think the phrase 'bird brain' is associated with being
dumb.  Not these birds.!!