The shoveler is a native species but is not endemic to New Zealand.

The name is also loosely applied to other ducks, as the canvasback, and the shoveler.

The shoveler stood still with a shovel full of gravel as the second man left.

The old man got a cow-milker and a shit-shoveler.

For a first-class shoveler there is a given shovel load at which he will do his biggest day's work.

Fish & Game's 16th annual nationwide count of the Australasian shoveler duck, known as spoonies for their distinctive flat bill, is under way.

He said estimates from last year's count put the population at about 14,000 but shoveler ducks were "very mobile" which made them difficult to count.

A second pair of shovelers takes the turned material and turns it again.

Shovelers, 'spoonbills' to many, are early migrants, moving out at the first frost.

Blue-winged teal and shovelers may retain the eclipse plumage until well into the winter.

The agent promised to telegraph for snow shovelers at once.

I believe he's going after something to stimulate the shovelers.

Yes, it was too venomously cold for snow-shovelers or anybody else to stay out long.

Now, will you set the shovelers at work moving this stuff back a little way?

It takes its name from its peculiar bill, and may be termed the Shoveler of Australia.

The machine required two men to operate and was considered to save the labor of twelve shovelers.