Hawkeye Fierce

I am guessing this image was perhaps shot in the shade.  I say this because I notice a blue color cast to what is supposed to be white feathers.  I might suggest adjusting the white balance in post processing.  For me I find Adobe Lightroom is the easiest method to adjust white balance after an image has already been shot.  Under the Develop tab, you would grab the Eyedropper tool and click anywhere on the white part of the feathers and LR will make the adjustments for you.

You captured a great, up close photo of a raptor.  Congrats! 

Thank you, Lacey Gribbin, for your helpful advice and very astute observations. I have made a change in the color. may I ask your opinion now?

The color cast is much better!  

Now I must ask if you photoshopped 2 separate images into 1 photograph.  When I first viewed the image I didn't look closely and assumed someone was probably holding the bird, wings tucked back, and leaned back showing it's belly upward.  On closer inspection I notice around the neck some things that don't seem quite right.  The 2 horizontal lines on the right side especially stand out to me.  Then on the left side the feathers appear to go up into a body part that doesn't seem to be there.  Also there are highlights that are blown (over exposed) in the upper neck area, but no other blown areas in the body of the bird.  These are just a few of my observations, not meant to be overly critical.  :)    

Best

PDE

Okay, Lacey, you're intense inspection of every detail is amazing and accurate! You got me!! This Red Tail is a rescue that was tethered at an educational exposition on raptors. It was under a tent (hence, the noise and color cast, etc). The birds were being fed and were very excited and territorial.  This poor guy had a broken wing that was angled weirdly.  I cannot explain the horizontal neck lines...there were no collars, just ankle shackles (tethers).

Thanks for your wonderful critiques...if we post an image and tag it as "wildlife" than it really must be wild or you're misrepresenting yourself and could develop a bad reputation here. I hope I haven't started out on a bad note by making this mistake.

Just because an animal might live in a sanctuary, zoo, etc doesn't make it any less wild.  If left to its own devices it would still thrive in its natural environment.  The same is true of photography and stitching images together - it doesn't make it any less of a photograph.  A good example of this is the ever popular "Froggy pose" you will see in Newborn Photography.  These images are not shot in a single frame.  The infant is posed and held into position in a series of 2-3 shots and then stitched together while editing out the hands of the person holding the child.  

I wouldn't say you have started out on a bad note at all.  Photography is an art and art is subjective.  Now if you had said this image was of your pet whale I might be saying something different.  ;)