I think some cropping will finish these off nicely. #1 needs the bird more to the right and the rest appear to need something taken from the bottom to balance them out.
The ROT doesn’t really have to apply to the entire object. It can apply to parts of the object, e.g. the eyes, wingtips, etc. It’s also key to have a moving object appear as if it is moving into shot rather than out of shot. With nice shots like thse you can also use another composition guide… diagonals pointing to corners.