I worked winter seasons in a Manhattan night club back in ‘69-’70-’71, summers at the Jersey Shore. One late afternoon on New York City’s East Side I was walking...I don’t recall where I was going or coming from...and saw a large flock of pigeons congregated on the sidewalk near an alleyway, eating something. A man suddenly sprang from the alley and with a swipe of a huge landing net (King Salmon sized, maybe) scooped up half a dozen or more of them. Not a lot of doubt about the purpose of that capture!
BTW, I hunted pigeons in a picked over cornfield near home in the fall a few years before that, and they were tasty. But I assume country pigeon has a better diet than city pigeon.
Yes, but the city pigeons are fatter!.....................