Just seeing if I can't incorporate lessons from ‘technical origami’, here in the form of point-split feet, within the overall simpler, streamlined language that I still believe is more appropriate for birds in origami.
This model is under 30 steps long.
From a weird variation of the Preliminary Fold, which instead of dividing the center into 8 x 45 degrees, divides it into 12 x 30 degrees. More on this later.
S.