Never eaten pigeon. I’d guess they’re a lot like doves though, and I’ve eaten lots of those, some of which I took away from my old killer cat to cook when I was a kid!
The farm pigeons are good to eat, but city pigeons, not so much. I would be concerned with disease with city pigeons, and Democrats for that matter LOL. Plenty of farms, when I was young, were infested with the things and farmers used to pay us to hunt them $1 a head. Crows included. First we had to chase them out in the fields, then bang!.
Doves are much harder to hit than pigeons. Taste about the same. When we weren’t having much luck with the peasant and grouse we would stop by the farm on the way home and get a few pigeons.