I was thinking the other day,if you were hunting/backpacking/Disasters like hurricanes? and lost,hurt,couldnt get help for a while,etc. What are some foods you could eat for survival in the winter?I talked with a old timer hunter/hiker/otherday ..that told me Beaver was great if you havent eaten anything in a week!Got me to thinking...What wild non-game birds are ediable?or which ones would you try first?
Dove would be the most common in my area but i was thinking about the other non-game birds...Can Crow be used or any common songbirds?I have never really given it much thought before....but did read one time where a survivalist ate a skunk....thats hungry!
My first thought... if theres water around ,,would be to try and find crawfish or fish...but never thought about non-game birds as food...

Pretty much any mammal or bird is edible if you are hungry enough. Heck, there are stories of Inuit surviving on rabbit droppings for months when nothing else was available.

.. Peanut butter ; Just have lots of peanut butter along .And Water

just about all birds taste like chicken

I have eaten a lot of grouse while camping/hunting---pine grouse is a hell of lot better than sage grouse!

Thanks,I read in a older"1962" outdoorlife book the other day where the auther said the porcupine should be protected... so a outdoorsman lost in winter...can easily overtake one for food emergancys in the Northern woods...
I though that was pretty good advice!
I hope none of us are ever in a bad way like that...But i do like to be semi-prepared for anything that may happen,,,,Murphys law is for real..
Oh yea,iam not to sure i can stomach earthworms..

I eat a worm in a restaurant in Zim once. Can't rember what they called it. It was black and rather chewy making it difficult to down it. The worms are eaten mainly as bet and a joke/challenge for the tourists. I ate mine at a restaurant in Victoria Falls.
( not to mention worms in booze _)

I have heard that porcupines are rather good eating. I haven't tried it myself.

You should be able to find "Cliff Bars" under most rocks..
AK

its called Mopane Worm

I tried one or two in a restaurant in SA built in an old train car....

Poole

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Originally posted by Bill Poole:
its called Mopane Worm

I tried one or two in a restaurant in SA built in an old train car....

Poole

that is it--------thanks

mopanes--taste like crap----don't think I will ever eat another one

If you want to eat worms just cut open a porcupine. They're full of them.

When we use to go in the back country for weeks we would allways have on hand for emergency food if stranded... potted meat & vieannes,sardines/kippers,oysters/crackers & Pork Rinds,jerkey&Tobasco sause& BBQ sause,coldbeer for survival food ...mostly cold bear with wild turkey 101 for snake bite/mosquito -Tickbite emergency
BBQ & Tabasco sause will make anything ediable

Gumboot458.. peanut butter is a goodone,I didnt think of that,thanks

I did live off dehydrated Ramiain noodles soup for a week one time on a island muzzleloader hunt and lost 15 pounds

Had to eat green banana slugs during a E.A.E. exersise one time. Not bad..... IF you..... THINK....CHICKEN!!!!!

Just read in a trappers magazine, that apparently Natives considered "gophers" [richardson's ground squirrels a delicacy. Maybe we could get them to exercize their treaty rights and help farmers out.
Grizz

Grizz, I've been giving that a lot of thought lately. I bet they ate more gophers than buffalo. Just send the gals and kids out with snares and load up. You could probably skin them and smash them flat and dry them on a rock in the sun and have a huge pile ready for winter. I just can't bring myself to try the stinky little buggers!