Study: Birds are more afraid of women than men, and no one knows why.

A new study has shown that for some unknown reason men are able to get closer to birds before they take flight than women.

The study was conducted across several European cities.

The researchers found that compared to women, men were able to get an average of one metre closer to birds before they fled (termed flight initiation distance).

And it wasn't just one variety of bird either.

This finding was also consistent across the 37 bird species studied, from species that typically flee early, like magpies, to species that flee late, like pigeons.

The researchers are absolutely befuddled as to what the reason is for the phenomenon.

Professor Daniel Blumstein from the University of California, Los Angeles, a co-author of the study said: ‘I fully believe our results, that urban birds react differently based on the sex of the person approaching them, but I can't explain them right now. We used bleeding-edge comparative analysis techniques that showed our findings were consistent across cities and species, but we simply don't have a conclusive explanation yet.'

They think it might be related to pheromones or the female gait, but no one is entirely sure.

There were a couple of other reasonable hypothesis out there:

One thing is for sure though; we can no longer use the term bird brain to denigrate the woke.