Spent a week on a barge as a kid travelling on the Leeds Liverpool and it went through all sorts of places, factories one minute proper rural the next and the wildlife never batted an eye. Decent air rifle you'd never need a butchers shop.
It's pretty good tbh but not as good as the Indian down the road. You can still taste the pigeon over the sauce so would probably work better with pheasant, partridge or rabbit.
I tried it in the pressure cooker on my ninja this time mate and it worked ok considering it was only 20 minutes. Browned it off a bit with a bit of seasoning and then chucked a pack of casserole veg in with it and a oxo cube and a veg stock cube. I put a few different seasonings in there too.
I wouldn't go off the noise myself mate, the black moustache around the beak is the main one I go for but if you use that and a couple of the other signs like black shoulder and back of head and they all point to one gender I stick to it.