Bird Podcast

Is there a link between birds and 007?  Well, author and American birder, Jim Wright says there is.  The title of his latest book says it all.   “The Real James Bond: A True Story of Identity Theft, Avian Intrigue and Ian Fleming.” The book says, “Long before Ian Lancaster Fleming became a bestselling author, a single-minded Philadelphia ornithologist named James Bond wrote Birds of the West Indies, based on repeated expeditions to the Bahamas and the Caribbean from 1927 to 1935.” Let’s find out more about the real James Bond. From this episode, we have started recording audio and video. Here is our Youtube video link of this episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSAcISsWbR8&t=132s Bio Jim Wright is the author of The Real James Bond, a biography of the author and birdman who fell prey to the world’s most famous case of identity theft. The Wall Street Journal called it “siim and elegant” -- like Bond himself. It is available as a hard-cover, ebook and audiobook. A long-time prize-winn