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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nutcracker" data-source="post: 4076887" data-attributes="member: 18214">A query arising out of side discussion in <a href="https://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=395662" target="_blank">this thread</a> - what is the type locality and precise [subspecific] identity of <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/727038" target="_blank">Linnaeus's Phalacrocorax carbo</a>? All that Linnaeus says about location is 'Europe', but also that it is nidificat in altis arboribus, "nesting in tall trees". I've not seen any subsequent reference restricting the location at all; given Linnaeus's nationality, one might expect that (like many other familiar N European birds) it would be Sweden, likely not far from Uppsala. The species is currently common around nearby Stockholm, where they <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phalacrocorax_carbo_5744_(4734980597).jpg" target="_blank">nest in trees</a>. According to <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225927812_Ecological_Segregation_and_Population_Structuring_of_the_Cormorant_Phalacrocorax_carbo_in_Europe_in_Relation_to_the_Recent_Introgression_of_Continental_and_Marine_Subspecies" target="_blank">some authors</a> (though not others!) this is a defining behavioural character of what is now called P. c. sinensis with nominate carbo, contrary to Linnaeus's statement, largely restricted to ground nesting on marine islands. Is there any designated type specimen on which the gular angle can be measured?</blockquote>

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