Hunted and ate lots while posted overseas, both in Germany and France..really a fancy dish. Having said that, I asked about eating the ones in the valley here, and was told that after all the chicken, turkey and duck farms were closed to avian bird flu..and because pigeons travel from barn to barn, why risk getting sick..So, they are fall when hit targets, and get handeled with rubber gloves...And I used to like eating them..seems a shame, but after that little bit of info, kinda lost the drive to cook em up...