I once had a roomate who used to devour all my food in the fridge and contibute nothing, and I decided toteach him a lesson...I made "squab casserole"...went straight to the park and began feeding pigeons from a paper bag, every once in a while a pigeon went INTO the bag, when no one was around. I cooked the breasts, boned them and added them to rice ad cream of mushroom soup...nothing fancy, and it tastes just like brown turkey. He gobbled it with gusto, until he found out what it was. I thought it was delicious!...he kinda freaked out a little. He asked before gobbling thereafter.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with pidgeon if one is in the habit of dining in an upscale restaurant one has probably eaten one, repackaged as squab.
A lot of dove hunters invest large sums in Benelli over-unders in Texas to hunt what are nothing more than pidgeons with a white slash on their wing. A friend of mine does the same with nothing more than a cheap ($50?) pellet gun.