I agree, if I had touched up the tails with a bit of anti-aliasing and flow I'm sure they'd be a great addition to the picture. The real problem with that is the size of the picture becomes too large to be suitable for this forum... so sadly I had to ditch the tails in order to keep the whole bird on here. ah well. As for the elliptical shape of the body, i think it makes it look more streamline
did it bother you a lot when you first looked at the picture?