If you find yourself caught in a winter survival situation with little or no food, drinking copious amounts of warm water will help to deal with hunger pangs, which should subside after roughly 3 – 4 days.

Plant identification is a daunting proposition. If you plan on integrating plant identification into your arsenal of survival knowledge but want to keep things simple, try using the following philosophy:

Learn a few basic, easy to identify, edible plants, which are abundant to the area in question, learn them well…and forget everything else. If you only know poisonous plants – you won’t eat.

All species of birds are edible. The only poisonous bird is the Pitohui, native only to New Guinea.