I’ve been taking photos with a Canon camera (EOS R100) for about three years now. It doesn’t have the neon colors. Nothing fancy, but you can change lenses (I mainly need an optical zoom, animals and birds are very shy and disappear in the distance).
Just for fun I went back to the legacy Topaz Clarity Hummingbird Wings Preset to see what would happen. This used to be one of my go to enhancements, back in the day.
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The bird is very well restored. As for the rest, it’s clearly the typical result of Redefine, which struggles a bit to create a realistic image with grass. I would have done a simple enlargement for the background and Redefine for the bird instead. Then I would have combined the two versions in Photoshop, for example. This way you keep a subtle blur on the background and a sharp image with plenty of detail on the bird. 
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I prefer the other one to this one. This one is much too garish.
Pleased with the success, I tried to improve the bad photo of a blackbird (well, nothing exotic again). It’s a crop again, taken with a Panasonic camera (my last but one – I still use it sometimes, it has a 30x optical zoom). Out of focus, almost no details. The bird was a very young spring blackbird, so it let me lie down in the grass about 2 meters away, cautiously watching what I was doing. (Blackbirds living near the forest are very shy, unlike those from the city, who don’t notice strange creatures like humans.)
I had to use Nano Banana in the first step for the details. Then it went well, the progress of the work is captured in the file name. Finally, I removed a little greenery (the same amount as with the woodpecker). I didn’t blur the background anymore, it seems unnecessary to me. Such a beautiful bird, it deserves improvement.
Postscript (edit): A detailed study of the result shows that the result does not correspond exactly to the original shape of the blackbird’s stance. It seemed to raise its head. This was caused by the Nano Banana. Although I ordered in the prompt not to change the position (N. B., unfortunately, likes this). But so be it.
The first picture is the achieved result, the second one is the original crop:
Recently, a new free AI model called Flux2.Klein has been released. Its weights are publicly available, it runs locally without cloud services, and it performs well for adding image detail. 
Thanks for the tip, I’ll try it. I see that it makes the details stand out.
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And one more picture – a finch. Very early in the morning, some bird was unusually noisy outside, singing its favorite hits. Sometimes it sounded like heavy metal. Then I discovered the bird. It was sitting on the very top of a spruce tree. I took a picture of it from a slightly open window at a distance of about 15 meters, but the photo was very bad (as the first picture shows, a very small section of the entire photo). I tried to improve it using the same procedure as for the blackbird. It was a struggle with Nano Banana, and N. B. produces those rich colors, as I found out (you can see it in the blue sky). Then I threw it at Gigapixel (to enlarge and finish the improvement) – but there it produced ugly artifacts (spots) on the uniformly blue surface of the sky (a Gigapixel bug from time immemorial). And so a nice finch was created (but it is an aggressive creature towards other weaker birds, e.g. at the feeder).
Given the very small and poor original, the result is naturally very artificial. The ugly thing is the generated white outline on the right side of the bird. Otherwise, this is what a finch really looks like.
Original:
Result:
Without zooming in, I prefer the greenery of the original.
It’s really not bad. But it’s a bit too sharp.
Here are the results on my end with Gemini.
Here is the prompt I applied:
“simply improves the quality of this photo and increases the resolution and sharpness.”
And here is the final result cropped to a 3/4 portrait format, which is more aesthetically pleasing.
And the link to the final 50 Megapixel resolution.
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Hello.
The noisy bird is a Chaffinch.
Regards.
Hello Unrelent.
I really like the work you’ve done on the Green Woodpecker. It looks natural and unprocessed in my opinion. I can’t fault it and enjoy looking at it. Nice work. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Best regards Robert.
Dear Robert, thanks for the recognition! While rummaging through the rusting photo archives, I discovered yet another picture with my favorite woodpecker. Even with the complete original (first picture), from which I made a cutout and then created the result (second picture) through Gemini (mainly because of the feathers and details; with a prompt) and Topaz Photo. The individual steps are listed in the file name. There was no color or background adjustment from my side.
It doesn’t look like it, but the woodpecker was moving away quickly and I was glad that at least something was captured by the camera – I saw a woodpecker in natura for the first time in my life. According to the Exif in the original, it was 6 years ago. So I improved it using my capabilities and skills. It can certainly be improved better, but I still like it.In this case, a different approach gave me the subjectively best result. I don’t know why. But the main thing is that a crappy photo could be improved. There are probably other ways to do it, but (for me) it’s very time-consuming.
Thanks also for specifying the name Chaffinch (knowing the names of animals and plants is not my strong point). 
Original:
Result:
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Hello Unrelent.
Its my pleasure. I like to see good work. Your picture deserves more than one like.
I’ve been interested in the natural world ever since I was a small child.
I’ve had a go at your second Green Woodpecker picture. I hope you don’t mind.
I took a different route than you did but I think it looks ok.
The details are in the file name or below, so that any new or inexperienced members can try them out on the picture.
Topaz-Photo-Superfocus-All-50-100
Gigapixel-Redefine-Subtle-A Green Woodpecker standing in long grass.
Topaz-Photo-Upscale-2x-Standard V2-Minor Denoise 1- Minor Deblur 10- Fix Compression 1
Note: Sending the picture back to Photo in the third stage to upscale the picture I think brings a little more life to the picture and the Minor Deblur adds fine detail to the feathers, in much the same way as the Wildlife filter does.
Regards Robert.
The second picture I used Superfocus Subject rather than All and then followed the same steps as in the first picture. This softens the grass.
Note : Grass generally appears greener in the spring because it resumes active growth, producing new chlorophyll-rich blades after winter dormancy, triggered by warmer soil, longer daylight, and increased sunlight.
Regards.
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Nice result! Thanks for the inspiration and your interest. You did very well with the grass too. The green thing on the far left is a piece of car – the bird ran out from behind it, was visible for a few seconds and then disappeared. But it probably lives somewhere nearby, I saw two of these birds last year but I didn’t have a camera with me. The most frequent visitor is a nuthatches, we meet together many times a day in the summer (it likes sunflower seeds and stores them for the winter in secret places). I’ll try to find its photo.
I’ve always been attracted to animals (at the age of five I wanted to be a monkey keeper at the Zoo, but it didn’t happen 
). Even ordinary animals are beautiful. On the improved photos, one can easily see how the creatures look in detail.
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Hello.
I thought the green thing was a big leaf. I just removed it using the new Remove tool.
When I was a kid my parents used to call me a cheeky monkey. That’s the closest I got to becoming a zoo keeper.
Regards.
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The bird’s details are better in this version. But the grass doesn’t look very natural. It looks very AI-generated. It would have been better to focus more on the bird and less on the grass, keeping the background closer to the original. In a way, that would have given the bird greater focus, as if the focus had been adjusted solely on it. That’s how I would have done it for this example. 
