In 1936 an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, a keen bird-watcher living in Jamaica, took the name for the lead character of his novels, finding it flat and colourless and therefore fitting for a character meant to be anonymous, a blunt instrument in the hands of the government. Here Taryn Simon casts herself as Bond the ornithologist and identifies, photographs and classifies all the birds that appear within the frames of the film franchise.