Clive Minton wins prestigious Eisenmann Medal
Birds Australia is pleased to congratulate Clive Minton on being awarded the 2012 Eisenmann Medal by the Linnean Society of New York.
The Eisenmann Medal is awarded to people not only for their great achievements in ornithology, but to those who have also provided outstanding guidance, assistance and encouragement in working with volunteers, amateurs or students as a personal mission (not as part of their employment) to interest them in ornithology.
Clive’s countless hours of work with both the Victorian and Australasian Wader Studies Groups for so many years on so many different levels has made him an obvious and deserving candidate for this prestigious award.
“I'm particularly pleased that this award relates to the activities of volunteers/amateurs and especially in organising and involving them in ornithological fieldwork. This is the way I have operated throughout my life and it's only through the enormous effort and dedicated support of huge numbers of people that I've been able to achieve so much over the years,” said Clive.
“The VWSG and the AWSG (especially the north-west Australia expeditions) are
