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Even so, freelance snow shovelers made the best of the situation.

To avoid injury, shovelers should follow a few simple rules: Stay in shape.

The shoveler prefers to nest in grassy areas away from open water.

He said would-be shovelers must bring a driver's license or other identification.

The second handle enables the shoveler to lift the snow with both arms without bending over.

Except, of course, when the blanket covers the sidewalk and you're the designated shoveler.

But several other vehicles were still submerged, and none of the shovelers ventured a guess as to when they might move again.

As he interrogates prospective shovelers, his need for contact and understanding is what counts.

Unemployed laborers found jobs with the city as snow shovelers at $1.50 a day.

One of the shovelers cast him a resentful glance.

At midday, only a bare few inches had fallen, hardly enough to give a heart attack to even the oldest shoveler.

Coming during the workweek, it will almost certainly mean snarled traffic and frustrated snow shovelers.

At least 33 weather-related deaths were reported across the country during the last week, many of them snow shovelers who had suffered heart attacks.

Smaller numbers can be seen of Pintail and Shoveler.

There are nationally significant numbers of shoveler and gadwall in late winter.

The Red Shoveler is cinnamon in color with dark spots, and a green speculum.

"We got some requests for snow shovelers and we could find them, but not like we used to be able to," he said.

There is more adventure, more sense of the city being different, in those stretches where shovelers have cut through only a slim path.

On 20 March, Shoveler was ordered to the Far East.

Even if a shoveler were strong enough and determined enough, the new snow, on top of so much older snow, will not stay in place.

Yes, exercise can kill; the fallen shovelers of the '96 Blizzard were but the latest proof.

They also support waterfowl such as garganey and shoveler.

Blue-winged teals and northern shovelers can be seen in spring and summer.

Indeed, its color pattern is strikingly reminiscent of the Australasian Shoveler.

Blue-winged teals and northern shovelers can be seen in spring and summer.

Or, in a near-whisper: "That's a male northern shoveler with the green head and cinnamon-color side feathers."

"The northern shoveler hasn't come in yet."

She squinted into her binoculars and found some northern shovelers and American widgeons and mallards.

Other birds like the Northern Shoveler, Stork and Kingfisher are also found at the sanctuary.

Among North America's duck species, northern shovelers trail only mallards and blue-winged teal in overall abundance.

The river also houses a number of species of birds, including the egrets, the grey heron, northern shoveler, common teal and mallard.

Cape Shoveler can only be confused with a vagrant female Northern Shoveler, but is much darker and stockier than that species.

Thousands of migrating Canada geese and many dabbling ducks, such as Northern Shovelers and Pintails, stop over in this location during the spring.

Thousands of Eurasian Wigeon, Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler also use the backwaters.

Eurasian Teal, Northern Shoveler Gadwall and Common Pochard occupy the open water.

Northern Shovelers feed by dabbling for plant food, often by swinging its bill from side to side and using the bill to strain food from the water.

Hundreds of Garganey Teals, Northern Pintail and Northern Shoveler can also be seen in the lake.

Five common species of waterfowl all breed on Lake Shetek: the American coot, gadwall, mallard, northern shoveler, and ruddy duck.

Making it a spot for birdwatchers who refer other species such as the Gadwall, the Northern Shoveler, the Wryneck, and the Tufted Duck.

Avian residents include the American avocet, black-necked stilt, black skimmer, white pelican, Northern shoveler, canvasback, green wing teal, ruddy duck and glossy ibis.

The region accounts for more than 60% of the breeding populations of mallard, gadwall, blue-winged teal, northern shoveler, northern pintail, redhead, and canvasback ducks.

Other common waterfowl include western Canada geese, mallards, northern pintails, gadwalls, green-winged teal, northern shovelers, canvasbacks, ring-necked ducks, and American wigeon.

Migrating wildfowl grace the lake in the winter and species of note include Gadwall, Northern Shoveler, Eurasian Wigeon and Tufted duck.

Bird-watchers in the area have documented more than 50 kinds of birds at the reservoir, including the white-faced ibis, green- and blue-winged teals, baldpates, northern shovelers and least sandpipers.

The Blue-winged teal is the most common migratory duck species found in the district, but Mallards and Northern shovelers as well as numerous other duck species also have been observed.

The finding of high mercury levels prompted further studies and a health advisory warning hunters not to eat Common Goldeneye or Northern Shoveler, two species of duck found in the lake.

The Northern Shoveler is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.

Mallards, American wigeon, gadwall, northern shoveler, teal, scaup, and ring-necked ducks traveling through the Mississippi Flyway stop by Hillside National Wildlife Refuge each winter.

Although mallards, gadwall and green-winged teal are the most abundant waterfowl species on the refuge; wood ducks, blue-winged teal, northern shovelers, northern pintails, and widgeon are also plentiful.