"John" wrote:

>Seeking photo of the Golden Bosun Bird that inhabits Christmas Island in the
>Indian Ocean.
>Have searched the internet without success.
>Can anyone point me to a likely source as I appear to have exhausted most
>Search engines?
>The only reference found to date is on the Christmas Island flag.
>John
>

I might get you a video snapshot of one -
low resolution of course, and may take a day or so
to search my video tape archive.
Or you could try to give a ordinary Bosun bird
a similar treatment as the 'white' lions seen
in this group recently.
But while collecting other pictures in the
group I found this picture using Alta Vista
on "phaethon lepturus" and "christmas island"
(in lowercase!) in 2nd or 3rd hit from list. Entry was
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/7576/podicipe.html
pointing to final URL
http://www.zip.com.au/~palliser/img308b.jpg
It helps a lot if you use the scientific name of an animal
when searching for info. May give some scientific papers
or references to it without pictures, but it also avoids lots of
false hits. I remember finding a webserver named "armadillo"
and a popgroup named "xxx and the Blowfish".
Surprising results I should say. Of course you should have
that scientific name first if you want to use it.
Anyway - I think this picture is what you need
just check out the copyrights when publishing

Martin Kramer

mkramer@wxs.nl
http://home.wxs.nl/~mkramer/

img308b.jpg

White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus)