Excellent exposure of the black, very good detail, nice head angle. I see a wide lighter halo around the bird - likely from processing (shadows/highlights?). Background is quite noisy - easily correctable with some noise filter or simple blurring.
Ditto Dieter on all counts. (And it is rare that I see the halo but here it is large.) I love the look and the soft light of this one.
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