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I think morris has presented a good rule-of-thumb on cropping combined with quality. If the picture is fuzzy, it will not crop well at all.
Christian H has some good examples here on cropping. His first photo on my screen measures 9.25 x 6.125 on my screen. It is sized such that I can sit in my chair and enjoy it on my screen. Now, if I double the size (about your requested size of 13x19) of his picture I need to sit further away to get the same feel from it. So, you need to determine what will be the normal viewing distance that your picture will be seen from. In this example the probable viewing distance would be at least twice the viewing distance of the picture on your computer.
If you get someone pixel peeping and complains, just tell them to get a life! Take pictures for your enjoyment, not for someone else's. Forget what the family and friends tell you about your work, it's when a perfect stranger sees one of your photos and ask who took that, it makes everything worth while.
Your dilemma I think, is more about how to get closer to your subject with the equipment on hand! SOME, NOT ALL, people may use blinds and/or bait their subjects, to get them within range for a nice sharp picture. There are all kinds of ways to do this and have the subject look like it is in the wild or you can also go out into the wild and setup a area to accomplish the same thing as well.
Heck, I have seen some photos here, where the person should have provided the birds some napkins so they could wipe the suet off their beaks and facial hairs. I not saying there is anything wrong with it, all I am saying is this is how sometimes you wonder how did someone get that shot, it isn't always being in the right place at the right time.
Gary
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