This one was easy,when redoing jpeg i open as a raw into Adobe camera raw,the first thing i do there is click auto(sometimes you get lucky),on doing this i got very close to what i wanted,moved it to photoshop and did a slight adjustment to shadows and high lights,selected the bird did a high pass sharpening set at 1.
It needed more care on the selection and i dont think i would have gone quiet so far but i wanted to show you what you where losing with it being too light.