There are several species of dove in Arizona; I’ve only hunted mourning doves, so I’m not really up on the differences.
Collared doves are an invasive species here, with no restrictions of season or limit, but unfortunately they seem to live in built-up areas from what I’ve seen. I’ve shot a few in the yard with my air rifle, and they are bigger than mourning doves but taste about the same.
You have plenty of rock doves on the east coast, though everyone calls them pigeons. Given the kind of crap they eat in cities, I don’t think I’d want to eat one.
Kosher?
yeah, we have lots of pigeons, but aroudn us is a lot of farmland- so they eat pretty healthy i think- farmers will hire out folks to help cull them in some places- usually with pellet rifles- one year at a local beach, they became so bothersome that the town had a fella with trained peregrine falcons come and thin them out- haven’t seen hide nor hair of the pigeons in town for a few years now