| Known locally as solan geese, gannets are Britain's biggest seabird, having a wingspan of up to six feet. |
| It pastures a few sheep, and is a great breeding-place of solan geese. |
| Old names for the northern gannet include solan and solan goose. |
| I walked to the tide-beaten beach and watched the solan Goose in search of a retreat from the destroyer, man. |
| Publican Tim Solan travelled to Brussels to lobby Euro-MPs on beer bootleggers but found himself jailed then deported. |
| The solan had been driven upon the Quarr rocks, and she was a total wreck. |
