Yes

Yup

Yes.

I never ate them but I’d like to try. I could get some right outta my upstairs window in town if I had to. My mom could never stand the cooing noise they make, she found it ominous.

Don’t take offense, was this a serious question?
I think every kid in the South’s first “hunt” was being a birddog for their Daddy on opening day of dove season. It would be a Holiday if opening day fell on a weekday. Most kids were shooting their own shotguns by 10yrs old if not younger.

Sorry, my Dad isn’t an outdoorsman. I’ve been stumbling through for the past 45 years on my own.

Dang man, sorry. If you’re ever in South Ga the first weekend in September just message me and I’ll get you on an opening day shoot! Everyone needs to experience a shoot in their lifetime. Heck, I’ll get you invited to the “owners shoot” where a lunch is provided and then we go hunt.

Those are morning doves, and I have eaten many hundreds of them. I love eating doves, but some find them "liverey".
I have grilled them, baked them, made burritos, tacos, casserole, you name it.
Where I live now, we have quite a few morning doves, (seasonally), but are in-undated with Eurasian Collared Doves, as well. They don't seem to migrate, and I plan on trying them soon. No limit, no closed season, and larger than morning doves.

Mourning, not morning

They come out in the morning too, lol!

That's true!

Oh, they are delicious!

Yeah, dove are a definite invite food. Most get eaten straight off the grill before we ever make it inside to sit down and eat, lol!

If I breast them out, I wrap them in bacon & grill. If I pluck them whole, I stuff them with stove top stuffing and wrap with bacon and lightly bake. Either way, I make a homemade tangy BBQ sauce :-) . . . can't wait until September 1st every year!!!! :-))))))))

I fry em for breakfast usually

Never tried dove. Only birds I shoot and eat are grouse, ptarmigan, ducks, and geese.

That's why they are named Mourning Doves.

Keith

Around here in the morning all you see is a pile of feathers near the bird feeder. Old Mr. Hawk just loves them too. As a kid pigeon hunting was fun, we did that after rabbit and pheasant hunting. Ate some every year......jk

Collared doves taste the same as mourning doves. Just more meat.