If there was ever a Mad Max apocalypse Yuan and I would probably be hunting pigeons for him to eat, as they are prevalent in the city, lol, but I genuinely hadn't heard of people raising them for meat before! Can you eat their eggs as well?
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You certainly can. The white is slightly translucent when cooked, but they taste like any eggs (they say different bird eggs taste different, but they all taste the same to me. Maybe because they all get the same feed 🤔). They used to have dovecotes for that very purpose, many years ago.
I had always thought those were for messenger pigeons. Learn something new every day!
Oh! Speaking of different flavors, there is a brand of (chicken) eggs here that sells a "heritage breed" variety, which are VERY different than "regular" eggs. The yolks are orange and they have a lot more flavor. I don't know if that's the breed or their feed or what, but I did notice a difference in those when I tried them (they're hella expensive; I got them for free for writing a review once, lol).
I'm often told my chickens' eggs have darker yolks and better flavour. I think it is more to do with what they're eating than anything, although yolk colour can vary a bit between birds and breeds. Most intensively raised chickens eat the cheapest feed they can get even if they are "free ranged", so I think that has a difference on the egg quality. If they don't get the nutrients, they can't put them into the eggs.
There seems to be some argument as to what food gives the darker yolks, some say bugs from free ranging, some say greens from free ranging, but there is still a difference between birds, even if they are all eating the same.
I'm probably spoilt. I've had my own chickens' eggs for so long I don't know the difference any more.
I have gotten to the point where I can't eat the generic, cheap eggs anymore because they just taste nasty. The free ranged ones are what I usually get.