The jail sentence sharpened his resolve to get out of the hustling life. Rodney’s life was nearly upended when he was arrested on drug charges in 2002. Hoots, the first of many birds whose respect he would work hard to earn.īird Brother is a story about pursuing dreams against all odds, and the importance of second chances. As conditions along the river improved, he helped to reintroduce bald eagles to the region and befriended an injured Eurasian Eagle Owl named Mr. Gradually, Rodney fell in love with the work to restore and conserve the polluted Anacostia River that flows through D.C. For that, he took a position in 1992 with a new nonprofit, the Earth Conservation Corps. To rent his own apartment, he needed a paycheck-something the money from dealing drugs didn’t provide. Rodney grew up during the crack epidemic, with guns, drugs, and the threat of incarceration an accepted part of daily life for nearly everyone he knew. In Bird Brother, Rodney shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America’s few Black master falconers.
There, the bald eagles and other birds of prey captured his imagination for the first time. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Zoo. To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C.
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