Each takes three to four months to create, with Doran-Webb and his team of six craftsmen working together on the process, with each sculpture springing to life from a series of initial sketches and scale models.
After determining the initial sex ratios of a series of clutches, the researchers added or subtracted chicks to increase or decrease the father's workload (a standard trick in avian ecology, made possible by the fact that parents do not recognise their own young until close to the time at which they leave the nest).