![]() When the real Bond later discovered this, Fleming apologized, and offered to allow the ornithologist to name a nasty species of bird after him one day. He lifted it from the cover of one of his birdwatching "bibles" at home in Jamaica: Birds of the West Indies by James Bond. When he began writing his spy thrillers, Fleming sought out a masculine yet not-too-flashy name for his hero, but he didn't just pluck "James Bond" out of thin air. Jerry Freilich, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons ![]() American ornithologist James Bond, circa 1974.
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