A reclusive ornithologist finds his life turned upside down when everybody mistakes him for his namesake famous secret agent. He must escape dangerous people and evil henchmen to stop the villain before his plan destroys the habitat of an extremely rare bird.

Thanks again Nir Shelter.

The idea was that he kills two birds with one stone, as it were. By stopping the villain's plans for world domination he also saves the bird's habitat, or vice versa. I guess that wasn't clear enough either. Basically his priorities might be a bit askew ? caring more for the birds than people ? in the beginning, but storytelling is about change occurring in the protagonist, so obviously he gets the priorities right in the end. I guess that could be more clearly stated in the logline.

I suppose I could try to bake the space opera nature of it in with the goal, just ?as long as it doesn't make the logline even longer than it is.

I was going to have him travel to a certain planet to find and study a totally fictional type of bird, the Volcano Phoenix, which lays its eggs in a volcano and the eggs only hatch when there's an eruption, only that can't happen since the villain has built his secret lair in the volcano.

I think I may have to work on the logline some more.

Thank you dpg. I like your version.

When an orinthologist is mistaken for a famous spy, his battle to save a rare bird turns into a battle with the spy's arch nemesis for his own life. (29 words)

In spy stories the stakes are normally life and death, I believe this to be important in order to help raise the tension in the story but in this instance if what's at stake is the natural habitat of a bird it falls short and doesn't have the same effect as life and death. So best to clarify how the MC's action will relate to the world domination or equivalent stakes. Problem is if you pin the two up against each other: save a bird's natural habitat and WORLD DOMINATION the former pails in comparison and should not be mentioned because his priority should be to save the world as appose to one species habitat there in.

I don't see how this concept relates in any way to a space opera or world domination not from the logline anyhow so you may have to re think the concept to better clarify this in the logline.

"...peace and quiet..." don't make for good goals because they are un defined and lack specificity. What will peace and quiet look like? How will he achieve this? Alone in the forest? Alone in a hotel room? Alone in an apartment? Alone in a cabin in the woods?? The multiple options to manifest this ambition and the lack of detail in its description make it generic so best to specify the details of the exact way in which he must find peace and quiet providing this will be his goal.