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When I lived on the Palouse Prairie in Idaho, we used to while away the months after bird season by shooting coyotes and feral pigeons. The approved pigeon method was to go up to one of the many tin-roofed abandoned barns out in the wheat fields, surround it, then throw rocks. Out would fly the "blue rocks" into a fusilade. At first we just left them for the kyoodles (sort of a "circle of life" thing) but then we became ambitious and started cooking them. Very good if you skin them and steam the fat off (that's where the herbicides lurk) and then use for Mexican Mystery Meat fillings for enchiladas, tamale pie, etc. One time, however, I left a bag of 7 or 8 in my basement for a short while and came back an hour later to find my basement had been turned into a down-filled sleeping bag with my huge tabby barncat, the late and lamented Arnold S., in a coma in the corner. We left two years later and there were still pigeon feathers down there....Guess he liked "Mexican" as much as I do.

I have a cookbook (from Idaho) which has a coyote recipe, in case you are REALLY adventurous.

Pete, thought that was you, but you need to get more posts under your belt.
Where are you coming from these days - TX, or Mich?
Mike, no thanks, haunch of coyote sounds tough.

I ate a few "jake" 'home grown' pigeons in my youth. They taste good, but you do have to like dark meat. The English seem to have had a palate for those corvids (was it rook pie, or something?), but thinking about eating them makes me buaaah....
Back to reading 'Dangerous-Game Rifles' by Terry Wieland.

So PaulJag, going to eat Lions now?

No, I prefer "vegetarians", thy're tasty! I don't have time, or 40K+ to try for a lion. I wouldn't mind feasting on young hippo I heard they are delicious.

Lowell, I was "Peter M." but when I had to log back in it had been so long that I couldn't remember my password and my email address had changed.

Still in Michigan until 1/5. Wife wants a white Christmas.

Actually crows couldn't be worse than mudhens, spoonbill ducks or mergansers. I know people who eat them. jim

Recall the old poacher's comment to Lord Nettleby when he beat for the upper-crusts in the movie, "The Shooting Party":..."Aye, rook pie; you don't want too much of it, Sir!" Perhaps a cold slice with a blazing cup of Starbuck's on a frosty morning a few days after Thanksgiving? When the pumpkin pie's gone, the Redi Whip still lingers - could be a "Black & White" entry in the Galloping Gourmet's after-holiday note bag. KBM

The crow would make a wonderful ingredient to a Christmas mincemeat pie too!
After the plump goose is nothing but a carcass, the turnip bowl licked clean - a meatpie soaked in rum, strong coffee and a brandy would be a perfect ending to the day of all days!
By George - it would at that!