What about pigeons?.........squab is nice..............
I remember walking down a street in Manhattan years ago and seeing this guy, sitting in the open passenger side door of a station wagon, feeding breadcrumbs to a small flock of pigeons on the sidewalk in front of him. All of a sudden, he pulls out this net and throws it over the pigeons. He must have scooped up 20-30 of them, threw them into the back of the station wagon and quickly drove off.
I always wondered if they wound up in some fancy NYC restaurant as squab.
Back in the early 70’s when I lived and worked in Manhattan I watched a guy across the street scatter something around on the sidewalk then duck into an alley. It must have been some kind of food attractive to pigeons, because a dozen or so of them were on it in a matter of minutes.
When they were concentrating on feeding, the guy popped out of the alley with a large, long handled fisherman’s landing net and netted at least 5 or 6 of them.