I thought a subtle color and contrast adjustment might make your outstanding image stand out a bit more.
Steps:
1-Selective Color Adjustment Layer to blacken the blacks and whiten the whites. Masked out a little of the blackenin on the lower feathers
2-Hue/Sat Adjustment Layer to up master sat by +32 and Greens by +20
3-Added new 50% Grayscale Layer just to dodge the eye for brighten it as much as I could.
4-Applied more noise reduction for nice smooth background after my above changes made it grainier.
The undergrowth was such that we could not go overland to a good photo position so we did what any TN photographer would do I suppose... waded. Then of course it was a several mile trek back to camp in soggy boots, but with smiles.
I could be very wrong, but the slanted horizon made me want to rotate the photo. It could be that this small part of horizon is actually not running straight. But without any good reference point, this is just my feeling. I rotated the photo with 2.12 degrees to the right.I also added a bit more sharpness.
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