Workboat companies eyeing the fledging offshore wind farm market may think they'll just be transporting workers and servicing turbine equipment, but they might want to add scarecrows to the list.

These high-tech versions of the traditional farm decoys are getting ready to hit the global wind power market as a deterrent to the pesky problem of bird poop on turbines.

Across the pond in the U.K., where offshore wind farms are a big and established business (far ahead of the U.S.), bird droppings h

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Pamela Glass is the Washington, D.C., correspondent for WorkBoat. She reports on the decisions and deliberations of congressional committees and federal agencies that affect the maritime industry, including the Coast Guard, U.S. Maritime Administration and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Prior to coming to WorkBoat, she covered coastal, oceans and maritime industry news for 15 years for newspapers in coastal areas of Massachusetts and Michigan for Ottaway News Service, a division of the Dow Jones Company. She began her newspaper career at the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times. A native of Massachusetts, she is a 1978 graduate of Wesleyan University (Conn.). She currently resides in Potomac, Md.