What was odd is that the author of this book was an ornithologist named James Bond. The real James Bond and Ian Fleming met only once, in 1964, well after the Bond novels had become a global ...

The 43-year-old Fleming, who was living two months of each year in Jamaica, regularly consulted “Birds of the West Indies,” by a Philadelphia ornithologist named James Bond. And back when he ...

and so James Bond II was born,” said Fleming, who himself described “Birds of the West Indies” as one of his “Bibles”. Therefore with thanks to Ian Fleming, an American ornithologist’s ...