Nicely done however the selection work needs a little bit of help on the background around the bird.
[Update] I am now seeing this on another computer and the selection area that I referred to above is not showing up. There was a distinct area of grey in the triangle where the legs meets the body. Also in the area of the head... interesting. Will revisit to double check.
The levels you pulled on the background don't go to pure white and leave a distracting blob to the lower left of the bird's bill, as well as under its tail feathers. Run a color picker over the area and see the values jump around. Ruins an otherwise fine shot.
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