When younger I had grasshoppers, worms and bees. There was a neighbor that shot robbins in her garden and then would eat them. As a teenager I shot some Bandtail pigeons during hunting season, and tried to cook them like any game bird. Bad idea, the birds lived near salt water and tasted worse than escargo, really bad. Most birds, including waterfowl around salt water don't taste good, unless they are marinated.
My dear mother cooked a big old Blue Grouse, I shot while deer hunting, thinking she would fix it like pheasant. Once again, buy some cheap wine and marinate it over night. Otherwise those tough old birds will taste like old sneakers and chew worse than boot leather.
Hope to never be so hungary to eat possum, skunk, badger, coyote, dog, cat, rat, snake, ground squirrel, most sea birds, and parts of animals considered a delicacy like brains, tongue, intestines and mountain oysters. Think I fix some chicken.