I think it's a great shot!
But the crop seems... odd, to me.
I would rotate it 90° CW.
Did you run a noise reduction on it? The feathers seem very soft in spots. You could run the noise reduction on a duplicate layer and erase the effect over the bird to keep the feathers sharper.
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