内容摘要：“It’s hard to justify subsidizing Canada to the tune of maybe $200 billion a year,” he said. “We protect Canada militarily, and we always will. We not going to, you know, that’s not a money thing. But we always will. But, you know, it’s not fair. But why are we subsidizing Canada $200 billion a year or whatever the number might be? It’s a very substantial number.”

“It’s hard to justify subsidizing Canada to the tune of maybe $200 billion a year,” he said. “We protect Canada militarily, and we always will. We not going to, you know, that’s not a money thing. But we always will. But, you know, it’s not fair. But why are we subsidizing Canada $200 billion a year or whatever the number might be? It’s a very substantial number.”

Their populations declined with the use of the pesticide DDT, which infiltrated the food chain and made their shells too weak to hatch. By the 1960s, peregrines disappeared from the eastern half of the country.But in 1972, DDT was banned, and conservationists began bringing the birds back from the brink. They came off the federal endangered species list in 1999. Nesting pairs in New Jersey, for example, went from fewer than five in 1980 to nearly 45 by 2021.

Their numbers began dropping again, though, withThe drop has been particularly severe among coastal peregrines, which feast on ducks, geese and other waterfowl that tend to congregate in great numbers and, thus, allow disease to spread more easily, said Kathy Clark, head of New Jersey’s Endangered and Nongame Species Program. Although bird flu is suspected as the cause of many coastal New Jersey nests emptying out, researchers have only been able to recover some of the dead falcons’ carcasses, she said, noting that many of those tested positive for the disease.Coastal peregrines in other states, including California and Virginia, have also seen declines, with bird flu suspected. It’s not all doom and gloom, though, as New York Department of Conservation wildlife biologist Angelena Ross said enough juveniles are moving into coastal areas to begin replenishing the numbers.

Peregrines that made nests among the glass and steel of big cities seem to have avoided the worst of the bird flu outbreak decimating their country cousins.City falcons, which eat songbirds and pigeons among other birds, haven’t seen the same declines, Clark said. And they’ve successfully added buildings and bridges to the their natural habitats, which include places like the Delaware Water Gap and the Palisades overlooking New York from the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.

Some even made a home on the busy George Washington Bridge, where scientists recently fitted chicks with anklets for tracking. New York state conservation officials estimate that the Big Apple has the largest urban population of peregrines around.

“We’re starting to see increases in success so that in New York City, we are at the point where we’re probably the most concentrated, populated peregrine falcon nesting in the whole world at this point. We have about 30 nesting pairs,” Nadareski said.New Volvo vehicles waiting for shipment at the Yangtze port, in Nanjing city in east China’s Jiangsu province, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Chinatopix Via AP)

Associated Press writers Didi Tang and Paul Wiseman in Washington and researcher Yu Bing and video producer Liu Zheng in Beijing contributed to this report.Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 11-17:

May 11: Singer Eric Burdon (The Animals, War) is 84. Actor Pam Ferris (“Call the Midwife”) is 77. Actor Shohreh Aghdashloo (“24″) is 73. Actor Frances Fisher (“Resurrection,” ″Titanic”) is 73. Actor Boyd Gaines is 72. Drummer Mark Herndon (Alabama) is 70. Former MTV VJ Martha Quinn is 66. Country singer Tim Raybon of The Raybon Brothers is 62. Actor Tim Blake Nelson (“Lincoln,” ″O Brother, Where Art Thou?”) is 61. Actor Jeffrey Donovan (TV’s “Fargo”) is 57. Bassist Keith West of Heartland is 57. Actor Nicky Katt (“Boston Public”) is 54. Actor Coby Bell (“Third Watch”) is 50. Cellist Perttu Kivilaakso of Apocalyptica is 47. Actor Austin O’Brien (“Last Action Hero”) is 44. Actor Jonathan Jackson (“Nashville,” ″Tuck Everlasting”) is 43. Rapper Ace Hood is 37. Singer Prince Royce is 36. Actor Annabelle Attanasio (“Bull”) is 32. Musician Howard Lawrence of Disclosure is 31.May 12: Actor Millie Perkins (“Knots Landing”) is 89. Singer Jayotis Washington of The Persuasions is 84. Country singer Billy Swan is 83. Actor Linda Dano (“Another World”) is 82. Singer Steve Winwood is 77. Actor Lindsay Crouse is 77. Actor Bruce Boxleitner is 75. Singer Billy Squier is 75. Actor Gabriel Byrne is 75. Blues musician Guy Davis is 73. Country singer Kix Brooks of Brooks and Dunn is 70. Drummer Eric Singer of Kiss is 67. Actor Ving Rhames is 66. Guitarist Billy Duffy of The Cult is 64. Actor Emilio Estevez is 63. Actor April Grace (“Lost,” ″Joan of Arcadia”) is 63. Actor Vanessa Estelle Williams (“Soul Food,” ″Melrose Place”) is 62. TV personality Carla Hall (“The Chew”) is 61. Keyboardist Eddie Kilgallon (Ricochet) is 60. Actor Stephen Baldwin is 59. Actor Scott Schwartz (“A Christmas Story”) is 57. Actor Kim Fields (“Living Single,” ″The Facts of Life”) is 56. Actor Samantha Mathis (TV’s “The Strain”) is 55. Actor Jamie Luner (“Melrose Place,” ″Profiler”) is 54. Actor Rhea Seehorn (“Better Call Saul”) is 53. Actor Mackenzie Astin (“Scandal,” “The Facts of Life”) is 52. Bassist Matt Mangano of Zac Brown Band is 49. Actor Rebecca Herbst (“General Hospital”) is 48. Actor Malin Akerman (“Trophy Wife”) is 47. Actor Jason Biggs (“Orange Is the New Black,” “American Pie”) is 47. Actor Rami Malek (“Bohemian Rhapsody,” ″Mr. Robot”) is 44. Actor Clare Bowen (“Nashville”) is 41. Actor Emily VanCamp (“Revenge”) is 39. Actor Malcolm David Kelley (“Lost”) is 33. Actor Sullivan Sweeten (“Everybody Loves Raymond”) is 30.