Many people (I can think of one in Israel) wouldn’t consider eating a pigeon (dirty birds that they are) but when they’re called white-winged doves and this being dove season you can bet a lot of Texas hunters are eating them right now.
Turns out, however, that you can’t legally do it without a hunting license, as Pflugerville blogger Ryan Adams found out when he posted pictures about his preparing, cooking and eating a dove that was killed when it flew into the side of his house.
Now he’s trying to get the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department off his back. Good luck, Ryan.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Yeah, you gotta have a license, but there is no season and no limit on the “rock dove”, AKA, pidgeon. I have killed them on dove hunts by the Rio Grande in the state areas given over for the old special white-wing season they used to have, after asking the game wardens that the place is crawling with.
I hate dove (and duck, and squirrel, coon, possum, etc.), every way I’ve ever tried them, and I’ve tried a bunch of them.So I put them in a dove gumbo. Even an old, tough, pidgeon comes out OK in a good gumbo.
They all look alike to me, and they have one thing in common: they make a huge mess. Wild game are pretty, uh, gamey, not to mention (in the case of possum) awfully greasy. Once was enough for me.
Er… to correct the impression: I hate pigeons while they are alive and would gladly have exterminate them, provided there was a legal way. Eating them, however, is another matter, and I am known to do so on multiple occasions.
Besides being tasty, the thought of reducing their population by eating them, is quite a bonus, too.
Oh, and the recipe is: deep fried, with major bones broken…
Color me shocked. They’re not even kosher.