After deciding to create a city strategically located between heaven and earth, so the birds can rule god and man, Pisthetaerus eats a magical root that has the powers to give birth to wings. Although it is evident that humans growing wings is not imaginably possible, the birth of wings does give birth to the power that Pisthetaerus craves more of. This power he craves helps him achieve more of his goal to escape his current conditions to one that submits to no higher deity. .

             When the target is distorted in an appropriate way, "the satire proceeds by an unrelenting attack. Here the satirist has a variety of weapons, ranging from rude direct insults and a lot of robust physical humor (pratfalls, misunderstandings, mock fights) to more complex assaults parodying various forms of language and belief" (Johnston, 8). When Pisthetaerus "offers himself as the leader who can restore the avine power and prestige that men have usurped" (Luce, 300) and the chorus of birds accept. "Stand forth. Instruct us what to do. We are ready for action, believe it ! We must have our kingship. Death be our choice unless we can somehow retrieve it" (Hadas, 249) He obtains not only the birds consent to take over the birds, but also the rule of man and the gods. This newly acquired power is later spread onto the birds. "When word comes that the great wall of Cloud-Cuckooland is built, no one wonders at the speed. Instead, the birds have boast that they have raised it all by themselves, without human aid: and in preposterous details of the construction. the absurdity of the whole is at once heightened and slipped beyond the barriers of incredulity" (Shipley, 39). When the birds marvel at their masterpiece, they get a sense of power that makes the feel superior to man and god. .

             When Cloud-Cuckooland is finally setup, the birds along with their leader Pisthetaerus achieves a final feeling of power when Zeus sends a chorus of gods to negotiate with the birds.