The blacks and the whites both look good, and the details are nice, but that is quite a tight portrait of the goose. Did you take some with more neck showing, perhaps as a vertical?
I love clean, tight, and graphic. Great that you are working with the often overlooked common species. Lightening the BLUE just a bit might improve it.
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