A black skimmer on the Southwest Florida shore. PROVIDED

Cape Coral Friends of Wildlife invites the public to its to next General Meeting Tuesday Jan. 9, at the Rotary Park Environmental Center, 5505 Rose Garden Road, in south Cape Coral.

Megan Hatten, Southwest Florida Shorebird Project manager for Audubon Florida, will discuss “Southwest Florida’s Coastal Nesting Shorebirds.”

Hatten specializes in coordinating conservation and stewarding efforts throughout Lee and Collier counties focusing on protection of imperiled shorebirds along our coastlines. She attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison for Conservation Biology and moved to Naples, Florida, over 7 years ago to pursue conservation efforts through work with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida and FWC. She recently joined Audubon Florida and hopes to increase education of our native species and has the vision of a world in which people and wildlife thrive together.

Megan will highlight five focal species and the programs that are run to protect them during their nesting season, along with how to be involved.

The evening begins with a meet and greet at 6:30 p.m., followed by Hatten’s presentation at 7 p.m. and closes with the general meeting at 7:50 p.m.

For more information, visit ccfriendsofwildlife.org or call 239-980-2593.