Bridget J. Stutchbury is a Canadian biologist, currently a Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology at York University. [1] [2] [3] [4] She is the author of the book Silence of the Songbirds , finalist for the 2007 Governor General's Award for Non-fiction. [5]
Bridget Stutchbury earned an M.Sc. at Queen's University and a Ph.D. at Yale University before going on to complete postdoctoral and research associate work at the Smithsonian Institution. [6] [7]
Stutchberry discovered that hooded warbler females will initiate sexual activity outside of the pair bond. Hooded warblers, along with birds more generally, were previously believed to form clutches with a single father. Radio tracking and DNA testing have demonstrated mixed paternity offspring instead. [8]