Clive Dudley Thomas Minton, AM (7 October 1934 – 6 November 2019[1]) was a British and Australian metallurgist, administrator, management consultant and amateur ornithologist.
Born in England, Minton attended Oundle School and went on to complete a PhD degree in Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge.
He was also instrumental in the formation of the Australasian Wader Studies Group (AWSG) of which he was founding chair, as well as in the establishment of Broome Bird Observatory.
From the early 1980s, Minton led regular, almost annual, wader study expeditions to north-west Australia to catch and study the waders that migrate to and through the coastal strip between Roebuck Bay near Broome, Eighty Mile Beach and Port Hedland in the southern section of the East Asian – Australasian Flyway.
In 2003, British ornithologist Andrew Whittaker commemorated Minton in the species epithet of the cryptic forest falcon (Micrastur mintoni).