helena.navalpotro@ctfc.cat
973 481 752 She currently works as a specialist technician, overseeing the monitoring of Dupont’s lark translocations within the LIFE Connect Ricotí project. She also participates in other projects focused on steppe birds in the Lleida Plain, including the stone-curlew and the little bustard. In addition to fieldwork, she analyzes monitoring data from target species to improve their conservation. Before joining the CTFC, she worked as a field technician monitoring the breeding of tits in urban and forest environments and conducting urban bird population surveys for the Natural Science Museum of Barcelona. She also worked with the Nature Conservation Network under the Youth Guarantee program. In her free time, she collaborates with the Solsonès Nature Group and carries out butterfly censuses in Llobera (CBMS).
Navalpotro, H., Mazzoni, D., Senar, J. C., 2021. A plastic device fixed around trees can deter snakes from predating bird nest boxes. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 44: 103-108
Senar J.C., Navalpotro H, Pascual J and Montalbo T. 2020. Nicarbazin has no effect on reducing feral pigeon populations in Barcelona. Pest Management Science.2
Senar JC, Garamszegi LZ, Tilgar V, Biard C, Moreno-Rueda G, Salmón P, Rivas JM, Sprau P, Dingemanse NJ, Charmantier A, Demeyrier V, Navalpotro H and Isaksson C. 2017. Urban Great Tits (Parus major) Show Higher Distress Calling and Pecking Rates than Rural Birds across Europe. Front. Ecol. Evol. 5:163.
Navalpotro, H., Pagani–Núñez, E., Hernández–Gómez, S. and Senar, J. C., 2016. Comparing prey composition and prey size delivered to nestlings by great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) in a Medi terranean sclerophyllous mixed forest. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 39.1: 129–139.
Goula, M., Navalpotro, H., Torres, L., and Ubach, A., 2014. On some interesting Iberian true bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera, Heteroptera). Boletín de la SEA, ISSN 1134-6094, Nº 55, págs. 135-140.