Niall Hatch
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150 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 25 Aug
Niall Hatch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is really cool, yeah.
And there's been some research done on what do the chicks of these birds do, because obviously this isn't a genetic difference, at least in terms of how it ref reflects their physical appearance.
It's something where their their feeding method is actually altering the shape of their beak.
Um so yeah, I have those ones that have the hammer were smash into shells and break them with the beak and it goes blunt like that, and then that's a great tool, more like a hammer then for breaking a shell.
But that's not so good at all for probing into the ground to get worms, which is what your pointed beak does.
But sometimes you do get pairs where one of the pair is a blunt-beaked individual, the other one's a sharp-beaked individual.
And then there's some research underway to see what does that mean for the chicks?
Which parent will they emulate?
Will they go their own way?
Will they have a mixture of both?
Well, best or worst of both worlds.
It seems it's still quite varied.
Um, each oyster catcher seems to have their own individual preference.
Uh, but it does work out for them, and I suppose that allows them as a species to diversify.
So if something happened at all
All of a sudden all of the um all of the mollusks disappeared, let's say, for example, they weren't able to feed on those.
Well, at least a big part of the population that's still specialized in feeding on worms can still survive.
So that diversification perhaps is why that has persisted um within the species.
They have these two very distinct and different feeding mechanisms.
But we do know it's either or.
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