Okay - if I was able to follow Nicole's excellent instructions to post, you should see the re-processed image above, with a click-link to the original exif.
The post-processing for this one, taking a lot of what's been said here into account was (using RAW from Adobe Bridge CS3):
Crop more to lower left third
Color Temperature from 5200-5500 (needed warmth)
Exposure +.35 (instead of the original 1.4ish)
Open Fill Light +39 (the darks were just too dark!)
Increased Contrast to =34 (the lower exposure compensation had this very flat)
vibrance +42 (to get the water to look more watery)
Saturation +7 (the beak)
Removed lens vignetting +61 (this looks like too much in the resulting jpeg, but as RAW and as .psd, it looked better)
Sharpened - a massive 95 - for the face
Reduced Luminance noise +21 (to clean up the water after the sharpening)
I kinda miss the vignetting, myself - although after the crop, I'd have to process the vignetting back in, if I wanted it.
The feathers are DEFINITELY better this way, and I do think it was worth bringing back some flatness to get that - that was a great suggestion. As for the crop - I'm going to
try to compose better during a shoot like this (I have real difficulty with fast-moving subjects), 'cause I really would have liked to have shot with the rule of thirds in mind.
Any better?
BTW - thank you, Nicole, for the clarification. That's so cool that I can repost - AND still submit another for the day!