Deer and pheasant are pretty common where I live, so I don’t consider them very exotic, but I don’t know how much other places eat pheasant that often. I didn’t really like either one.
Elk was awesome. Had some elk sliders once, with some fancy type of cheese. Can’t get any more descriptive than that but they were super good. And I really liked bison.
Your list looks much more exotic; mine is fairly common animals for the American Midwest.
Deer whitetail and axis
Quail
Dove
Rabbit
Squirrel
Bison
Ostrich
Bear
Elk
Snake once on bet while drunk
Alligator
Crawfish
Snails
Wild Duck
Wild hog
Wild turkey
And some kind of mystery sausage in Montana once that to this day I have never figured out what the hell it was!
That would have probably been made with “Mountain Oysters”…aka…Bull nuts!
Alligator
Whitetail Deer
Emu
Black Bear (Greasy)
Crawfish (I am originally from Louisiana after all)
Wild Boar (hog)
Snake
Coon
Elk
Bison (My FAVORITE steak)
Moose
Tur-duck-en (not really exotic but the combination of the three is pretty unique)
I saw a gypsy being interviewed on TV about eating hedgehog
Interviewer: “So, what did hedgehog taste like?” (expecting the old ‘chicken’ answer)
Gypsy: “Well…it tasted a bit like cat”
Cue hysterics in our house
I have traveled throughout Asia for many years … meaning I was never sure what I was eating.
Knowingly … I have had
Turtle (Turtle stew and sauce piquant are regulars in Louisiana)
Fried bugs (Thailand - like eating charcoal)
Quail
Dove
Duck
Rabbit
Squirrel
Alligator (fried and in sauce piquant)
Crawfish (of course).
Deer of course (lots of deer sausage in LA).
I won’t count deer/moose/elk etc because it was pretty common for me growing up (family of hunters). Aside from that, I had shark steak in Thailand. That was delicious.