Beautiful. The innocence of Yodaka and the way he is treated by the other birds transform what he is—an empathetic animal who wishes no harm to any species, whether they treat him well or not. Skeptical of the instinctive arguments of the fauna, he questions whether the diet imposed by the food chain is truly ordained by God or merely a collective choice of a specific society to feed on the same target, making him ponder the possibilities of life after the extinction of the prey. He increasingly identifies as nature itself—neither as flora, despite his disguise among the trees, nor as fauna, for, justlike his name, a nighthawk is not a hawk.