03539cam a2200325 4500 604249194 TxAuBib 20220907120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781642831757 1642831751 B09NDYWRXG Amazon 7b57d6d8-bc2f-4aac-b21f-93d0308486cc OverDrive (Reserve ID) 7302254 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Stotts, Rodney. Bird Brother [Libby eBook] : A Falconer's Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife. Island Press, 2022. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3800kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p>To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Zoo. There, the bald eagles and other birds of prey captured his imagination for the first time. In <i>Bird Brother</i>, Rodney shares his unlikely journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America's few Black master falconers.<br /> <br /> 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. To rent his own apartment, he needed a paycheck—something the money from dealing drugs didn't provide. For that, he took a position in 1992 with a new nonprofit, the Earth Conservation Corps. Gradually, Rodney fell in love with the work to restore and conserve the polluted Anacostia River that flows through D.C. As conditions along the river improved, he helped to reintroduce bald eagles to the region and befriended an injured Eurasian Eagle Owl named Mr. Hoots, the first of many birds whose respect he would work hard to earn.<br /> <br /> <i>Bird Brother</i> is a story about pursuing dreams against all odds, and the importance of second chances. Rodney's life was nearly upended when he was arrested on drug charges in 2002. The jail sentence sharpened his resolve to get out of the hustling life. With the fierceness of the raptors he had admired for so long, he began to train to become a master falconer and to develop his own raptor education program and sanctuary. Rodney's son Mike, a D.C. firefighter, has also begun his journey to being a master falconer, with his own kids cheering him along the way.<br /> <br /> Eye-opening, witty, and moving, <i>Bird Brother</i> is a love letter to the raptors and humans who transformed what Rodney thought his life could be. It is an unflinching look at the uphill battle Black children face in pursuing stable, fulfilling lives, a testament to the healing power of nature, and a reminder that no matter how much heartbreak we've endured, we still have the capacity to give back to our communities and follow our wildest dreams.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-09-06 20:00:03. Pipkin, Kate. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7b57d6d8-bc2f-4aac-b21f-93d0308486cc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7b57d6d8-bc2f-4aac-b21f-93d0308486cc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=7b57d6d8-bc2f-4aac-b21f-93d0308486cc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)