My experience with ringnecks on the table was that that they were fine. This was mostly ducks killed on a 110 acre reservoir in middle Georgia and on small ponds here in coastal Georgia. Freshwater Wigeon, Gadwall, Blacks and Mallards were fine dining as well, but the same couldn't be said about ones found in saltwater. The aroma of cleaning saltwater puddlers smelled like an overripe landfill. A friend who lived in Miami decades ago told me that the Everglades woodies he killed were full of snails which adversely affected their taste. You are what you eat. Gil