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  • noun Plural form of gannet.

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Examples

  • They had seen dolphins, leatherback turtles, a flock of water birds called gannets and even a basking shark - but not what they were looking for.

    news | TL | http://www.tuscaloosanews.com 2009

  • During the following days a large number of birds, such as gannets, sea-swallows, and tropic-birds, flew around the caravels.

    Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866

  • This includes marine birds such as gannets, shearwaters and petrels in addition to five Brydes whales and more than 100 common dolphins.

    Latest Massey News 2008

  • This includes marine birds such as gannets, shearwaters and petrels in addition to five Brydes whales and more than 100 common dolphins.

    Latest Massey News 2008

  • This includes marine birds such as gannets, shearwaters and petrels in addition to five Brydes whales and more than 100 common dolphins.

    Latest Massey News 2008

  • This includes marine birds such as gannets, shearwaters and petrels in addition to five Brydes whales and more than 100 common dolphins.

    Latest Massey News 2008

  • This includes marine birds such as gannets, shearwaters and petrels in addition to five Brydes whales and more than 100 common dolphins.

    Latest Massey News 2008

  • This includes marine birds such as gannets, shearwaters and petrels in addition to five Brydes whales and more than 100 common dolphins.

    Latest Massey News 2008

  • Witnessed only by a few gannets and sooty fulmars, Sergeant Brian Peel, Lieutenant Commander Desmond Scott, Corporal Anthony Fraser and the naturalist James Fisher mixed buckets of cement and erected a flagpole made from old propeller shafts.

    'Hello Mum, I'm on Rockall': The £100bn piece of rock 2011

  • Simpler in style but in a fab location is the Lighthouse Keepers' Cottage sleeps 10, seven nights from £646-£1,651, perched on the edge of cliffs on the remote Foreland Point in Devon, where you're more likely to see dolphins, porpoise and gannets fishing at high tide than people.

    UK cottages: a guide to leading rental companies 2012

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