US Coast Guard Successfully Tested The Whirlybird Repeller On Its Navigational Aids

Left: Coast Guard aid to navigation with excessive bird guano. Right: Another Coast Guard aid to navigation with WhirlyBird Repeller in place; no significant bird guano.

Excerpt from The Aids to Navigation Bulletin, National Aids to Navigation School, U.S. Coast Guard, Spring 2006 (Volume 33, Number 3).

Whirly Bird Deterrent
by BMC A.J. White, ANT Charleston

During the fourteen months from August 2004 to October 2005, ANT Georgetown tested a bird deterrent device created by a local company, Whirlybird Solutions. The “WhirlyBird Repeller” is designed to rotate in the wind, which causes noise and excessive movement that scare birds.

ANT Charleston installed the WhirlyBird on several aids with a history of outages caused by excessive guano that they had been visiting at least once a quarter for the last three years to recharge the aid and clean the solar panel.

Since the WhirlyBirds were installed, there has not been a single discrepancy related to excessive guano on those aids. The significant decrease in discrepancy response has allowed the ANTs to conduct more annual services and asset maintenance. For more information about the WhirlyBird, visit their website.

Bobby Harrell

The whirlybird is incredible. We had a huge problem with birds making very unsightly messes on our boat and jet skis before installing it. Now, we are able to eliminate that problem without hurting the bird population. It is a green solution to a very real problem. You guys and your product are awesome. Thank you for this wonderful invention!

You may use this as a reference on your website or anywhere else you think is helpful to people. I hope everyone with a bird problem will recognize how great the whirlybird is. Keeping birds from hurting us without hurting the birds is a marvelous invention.

Bobby Harrell

Speaker,

South Carolina House of Representatives

Fred Wichmann

The WhirlyBird has been used successfully by Fred Wichmann for several years to protect his dock and the Mobjack, his classic 45' Herreshoff Ketch built in 1936.

Pylon Installation

Dear WhirlyBird Solutions,

I had a WhirlyBird Repeller installed on my dock about two years ago. Prior to this, I had experienced considerable intrusions by various bird-pests alighting in the rigging of my forty-five foot sailboat’s sixty-foot mast and depositing their droppings over my vessel and dock.

During the past two years I have been completely spared this considerable annoyance due to the definite effectiveness of this device. Having lived around salt water all my life, and having been Commodore of the James Island Yacht Club, as well as past Commander of the United States Power Squadrons, I do express my opinions from a knowledgeable background and from experience with bird problems in the marine environment.

The WhirlyBird Repeller works!

Most sincerely, Fred Wichmann, Sr.

SeaFox Boat Company, Inc.

02/27/08

To whom it may concern,

In the summer of 2007, we had a large seagull infestation around our manufacturing facility. There were several hundred birds that were a real nuisance. I tried several solutions with no results. I was then referred to WhirlyBird Solutions. I installed 10 Whirlybird Repellers on my 200,000 square-foot building, and the birds went away immediately. I was delighted at this sight. I would recommend using this product to anyone who needs an immediate solution to help with nuisance birds.

Yours faithfully,

Chris Nemeth
VP Operations
SeaFox Boat Company, Inc.
2550 Highway 52
Moncks Corner, SC 29461

Irvin House Vineyards

The WhirlyBird Repeller scares birds away from the Irvin House Vineyards!

Dear WhirlyBird Solutions,

The use of the WhirlyBird Repeller resulted in a dramatic increase in production, with an overall 15 to 20% greater yield during the summer of 2006 and an even greater yield during the summer of 2007. In fact, our yield for the past two summers with the WhirlyBirds has exceeded our capacity, allowing us to sell our remaining crop to home winemakers. The WhirlyBird Repeller works so well, Irvin-House Vineyards actually includes a discussion of this device during its wine tasting tours. After we had picked all the grapes we could use, we removed the WhirlyBirds from the vineyard. Within three days of this removal, the crows and blackbirds were back and helped clear out the bad and leftover fruit and proceeded to clean up the vineyard.

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Jim Irvin, Owner,
Irvin House Vineyards
Wadmalaw Island, SC

Lutz Berry Farm

July 21, 2008

Dear WhirlyBird Solutions:

I have a very small high density Blueberry Farm located in South Georgia. We have always had problems with birds migrating up during harvest and causing damage to the fruit. The birds typically come in small flocks from 50 to 75 birds and hang around through harvest and then migrate North. The biggest threat with the birds in high density Blueberries is that you have a relatively large amount of fruit concentrated in a small area. I have tried several different things in the past to prevent them from coming into the field. I have used fake hawks, different colored tape tied to the overhead sprinklers, and used shotgun sounds to try and keep them out of the field.

This year I put 30 WhirlyBird Repellers placed at different heights scattered over a 6 acre field. I concentrated them a little more towards the areas that the birds typically light. The WhirlyBird Repellers were placed on top of ¾ galvanized pipes at heights anywhere from 6ft to 8.5ft. I was amazed at the results that I got. One morning I watched a flock drop into the field and within a few minutes they left and never came back. I kept looking for them to come back at anytime because they always do. I did not happen. This is the first year that I can honestly say that I did not see any bird damage. You have a product that really works and I thank you for it.

Sincerely,

Eric Lutz
Lutz Berry Farm
28 East Dame Ave.
Homerville, Ga 31634
912-470-8001

Roger D. Scott

Dear Whirlybird,

We live in rural Spotsylvania County, Virginia, and grow many vegetables and fruits in our yard and gardens. We planted Navajo thornless blackberries along the fence that defines our driveway. The plants took off and have been very robust, but we have competed with the birds for years for the fruit. These plants produce giant thumb-sized succulent blackberries by the gallon. We have six cats and they help deter the birds; we tried nylon netting, and diligent daily harvesting, but nothing seemed to keep the birds from stealing at least half of the blackberries. Have you priced blackberries at the grocery store? I guarantee you they cost much more per pound than beef, or even lamb and veal. At our wits ends to stop the birds, we finally discovered the website for The Whirlybird! We put one whirlybird on the top of a fence-post in the very middle of the blackberries and the birds have disappeared! They are freaked out by the motion, the sound, the reflections of light. Our retired neighbor chopped down a cherry tree on his land because he said the birds always beat him to the fruit and he had huge flocks in his yard when the cherries were perfectly ripe. We told him about the whirlybird and he was sorry he didn’t try the whirlybird first! it’s effortless! Once that thing starts spinning, your crops are safe. Our cats hunt rodents now since the birds have all but disappeared. Whirlybird is the modern scarecrow!

Thanks,

Roger D. Scott

Angie and Sammy Hood

The Whirlybird Repeller keeps songbirds safe from hawks by discouraging them from coming out into the open where they are vulnerable. It also keeps birds from foraging the koi in the Hood family koi pond.

February 2008

Dear WhirlyBird Solutions,

We live near the Tail Race Canal (Cooper River but Moncks Corner end) so we have a lot of bird traffic. We have in our yard a Koi pond which is out in the open. Between the Koi pond and our bird feeders, we have numerous song birds in our yard. Before I installed the WhirlyBird Repeller, I had problems with hawks attacking and killing the birds perched and drinking from our Koi Pond Waterfall. We would find feathers from the bird kills on a regular basis and we wanted to find a way to protect the birds by keeping them away from our Koi pond and out of harms way. We also wanted to protect the Koi by keeping birds away from the pond.

We heard about the WhirlyBird Repeller through the Charleston Showa Koi Club, and we were given the opportunity to test one out. Since we installed the WhirlyBird Repeller in December 2007, we have not seen any hawks land in our yard, nor have we seen any feathers piled up in our yard. As for the eagles, egrets, and heron, I do not see them flying as low to the house as they used to and I still have all 38 Koi in my pond. Attached is a picture showing the WhirlyBird Repeller mounted next to our pond.

Thanks for such a wonderful invention that will save my Koi and backyard birds. For all those reading these testimonials, the WhirlyBird Repeller really works!

Thanks again,

Angie and Sammy Hood
Moncks Corner, SC

Terrace Theater

12/02/08

WhirlyBird Solutions,

WhirlyBirds have been used successfully to keep birds from roosting in the marquee at the Terrace Theater in Charleston, SC. Prior to installation of the WhirlyBirds, birds continuously roosted in the the marquee’s neon sign, causing it to short out, resulting in hundreds of dollars in damages. Installation of the WhirlyBirds solved the problem.

John Burrow
Terrace Theater Technical Manager
Terrace Theater
1956D Maybank Highway
Charleston, SC 29412

Saint James Ministry Center

March 11, 2009

Dear Rob,

Thank you for your donation and assistance installing the five (5) Whirlybird Repellers at different roof locations on the Saint James Ministry Center. As you are aware, crows were attacking our roof level windows continuously throughout the day and were especially disruptive during our Sunday Services.

When the Repellers were installed on the front two roof areas, we were initially skeptical about the effect they would have. The Whirlybirds successfully discouraged the crows in these areas, so we installed them on the rear two roofs. Again, the crows were discouraged and relocated to a side roof which they had never bothered before. Another Whirlybird was installed there, and they left that area as well.

Now the crows, having left the roofs and our upper windows, are now attacking the entry doors to the building. This, however, we can live with. The Whirlybirds really work! Thanks again.

Grace and peace,

The Rev’d Arthur M. Jenkins, Sr.
Pastor

:AMJ