Ian Fleming found the name for the ruthless MI6 agent James Bond in a Pennsylvanian exotic ornithologist, a scientist who studies birds. As reported by the Smithsonian Magazine, Fleming confessed ...

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 ...

One of the bibles of my youth was ‘Birds of the West Indies,’ by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, My God ...

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 ...