It's genetics.
@GoatsShadows mother is Snow White.
lol I've owned almost everything except a bird... bird's are nothing once you earned the trust of a red claw scorpion... they're super finicky and string as soon as spooked.
There are about 8 of them. Red Wing Black Birds are by far one of the smartest and most trusting to try with. You toss them peanuts for long enough, once a day, for like a week or two. After this you start sitting near them and holding your hand out. Now when I go on a walk I keep peanuts in my hand because there's one that will see me from across the lake and literally B-line straight into my hand when I hold it up.
Easier option: Get a shoebox and fill it, and feed them from that. It wont take them long to figure out where the nuts are and start wanting to pick their own.
Other Birds: Nuthatches and Chickadees but they're harder to earn trust with... they're definitely a shoebox type bird
I've made friends with crows in a similar way. There were many crows at a place I used to work, and there was also one magpie and one raven.
The raven and I became buddies, but he kept the others away when he was hanging out.
Every break and lunch that I took outside, I had his company. He also spent a lot of time hanging out on the ledge above my door and was often there when I stepped out for a smoke. I was trying to teach him some words, and he was beginning to make 'human noises', but then I left that job.
I really wanted to teach him to say 'Nevermore'. The idea of a wild raven flying up to random people and squawking that, amuses me.
This took effort to find. You can befriend crows, and they never ever forget anything. If you throw a rock at one at 5, at 15 he'll still hate you on the other side of town. I wanted a pet crow my whole life. That'd be fucking hilarious if you taught it Nevermore... sadly todays humans don't know poetry that well...
It's that easy to get a bird to land in your hand? How long did it take to show up?