HP: some of your logic is a bit worrying. If a large bird hit the moving rotor of most light helicopters, the chances are that the damage to the rotor would end your day in any case - the tail strike would be supplementary.
Your worries are understandable - but think too deep and you'll question why you've bothered to order a helicopter.
Take the train of thought to its ultimate and realise that the human body was only ever designed to do 8 miles an hour.
What ? Leave the house ? Me?
Whilst you wait for your glorious machine, why not spend just a little more $$ by enrolling on the RHC safety course. Have a few days at Torrance. Do some great LA flying.
And relax.
"One second everything is fine, the next...disaster and death."....that's a bold statement to make. Are you sure that's what the evidence states ? Assuming these were non-survivable accidents, how could anyone possibly know what happened prior to the calamity ?
BTW: the report you've pointed us at is for R22 model.........I am not aware of any R44 tail strike NTSB reports.