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Dave5041
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Initially Posted - 03/29/2008 :  21:25:59  Show Profile
The current issue of Practical Sailor mentions a new bird deterrent: whirlybirdrepeller.com, and even better, they will publish an extended test a various devices later this year. Perhaps there will be an effective solution.

Dave B. aboard Pearl
1982 TR/SK/Trad. #3399
Lake Erie/Florida Panhandle
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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 03/29/2008 :  23:53:09  Show Profile  Visit Steve Blackburn's Homepage
Wouldn't want my dock neighbor to have one of those while I'm trying to sleep. An easy solution my sailing instructor has is to hang a 12" plastic owl. Saw the same idea used at a KFC to keep the seaguls away. Seems to work well.


Hooo Hooo, If you crap on this boat I will eat you, Hooo Hooo. Go to Dave's boat he doesn't have a plastic owl, hooo hooo.
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PZell
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Response Posted - 03/30/2008 :  09:27:05  Show Profile
I just use some CDs hung in the rigging. Works pretty well. Around our marina some of the things used: Colored streamers (I think from a garden supply store made for use around your garden), the Owl as above, and some really realistic scarecrows out on deck. The starlings are the worst. They are very bold. I moved about half way down the slip row equidistant between the shore and the breakwater which is used for a roost. More opportunities before either side residents get to my boat.
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Dave Bristle
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Response Posted - 03/30/2008 :  10:08:44  Show Profile
A picture is worth...



<i>Two</i> pictures are worth...
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dlucier
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Response Posted - 03/30/2008 :  10:34:28  Show Profile
At my marina, people have used the plastic owls/eagles, rubber snakes and rats, along with shiny streamers/CD's/pinwheels/kitelike things...etc, to keep the birds away, but I think they only give the user a sense that they are at least trying to do something.
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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 03/30/2008 :  16:57:16  Show Profile
As I mentioned on another thread on bids, research has shown that bird brains are extremely good at categorizing and there by dismissing non threats with limited exposure. Many things work for a few days. One famous study trained birds to recognize the impressionist style of painting and then pitted them against grad students in recognizing the impressionists in a random selection of art. The birds were faster and more accurate
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Steve Blackburn
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Response Posted - 03/30/2008 :  19:53:18  Show Profile  Visit Steve Blackburn's Homepage
Those pictures gave me a good laugh. I guess I'll be saving $20.
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 03/30/2008 :  20:33:52  Show Profile
Here's a solution:



It's a mini gatling gun.
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