Some Italians eat songbirds and have been for centuries, they catch the birds in nets and cook the birds without cleaning. Not much extra protein running around Southern Italy, I guess.
Songbirds are tasty. Japanese consider starlings a delicacy.
Starlings are an invasive species here in America so it’s open season on them.
I detect a fun business opportunity.
The humble parakeet from Australia has a second moniker: budgerigar. It is a homophonic translation of what the aborigines called them. Its meaning was “tasty little birds”.