squirrel is pretty tasty, and they have a family resemblance.
A neighbor hunts pigeons from a barn.
Claims that being on a farm they are grain fed???
Around here most people call them winged rats.
No, no thanks, not until after ramadan or Lent or Passover or...
Squab. The reason for the extinction of the passenger pigeon was that Americans once had a thing for passenger pigeon young...squab. A bit larger than the introduced rock pigeons of today.
Buddy in the Corps was from N.C. Claimed to kill rats as kids, skin them, and sell them as squirrel in the darker parts of his town. Folks got wise and insisted they leave the feet on for ID of the critter.