helena.navalpotro@ctfc.cat
973481752 (314) Specialist technician, who is responsible for monitoring the translocations of Dupont's lark within the framework of the LIFE Connect Ricotí project. She participates in other projects involving steppe birds in the Plana de Lleida, such as the stone-curlew and the little bustard. Apart from fieldwork, she also analyzes the monitoring data of the target species to improve their conservation.
Before working at CTFC, she was a field technician monitoring the reproduction of tits in urban and forest areas, as well as conducting censuses of urban bird populations for the Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona. She also worked for several months at the Nature Conservation Network within the Youth Guarantee program. In her free time, she collaborates with the Gruo de Natura del Solsonès and participates in the Llobera Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (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.