We eat the birds, if that’s what you’re asking. Never had a bird stuffed, and the only game I hunt, are upland birds. Too many growing cases of CWD for me to want to hunt deer or elk.
Equating birds that are classified as poultry, to songbirds, is an idiotic reach, even for you.
Let me ask, do you eat chicken or turkey? Do you think that chicken or turkey are the same as cardinals? I only ask, because pheasant and partridge are in the same class of dining fare as chicken and turkey. We also hunt turkey, but you don’t need dogs for that.