The thumbnails below give a tiny idea of the photographs of muskrat that appear on each site. Each site has a larger, more detailed photo on it.

Het werk contains a section at the bottom of the page, "Muskusrattenbestrijding" that is accompanied by a striking picture of a muskrat.  A larger image is available at http://www.overmaas.nl/7.jpg.  Home page: Waterschap Roer en Overmaas.

A search for "muskrat" from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's National Image Library will lead you to this picture of a muskrat created by R. Town.  It is in the public domain and available in JPEG format in 1147 x 781 (238 KB) and 3193 x 2173 (991 KB) formats.  The US Fish and Wildlife Service does request that you credit the work if you use it, using a line such as "U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service/photo by R. Town".  See Privacy, Disclaimer, and Copyrights,  U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

Muskrat house in emergent wetland photograph from United States Environmental Protection Agency

Muskrat lodge photograph by Robert A. Macarthur (see next entry), from the home page of Kevin L. Campbell.  (Hosted at the Personal Homepage Server, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.)

Mike Walter's The Old Muskrat's Page has a picture of a muskrat lodge on it (left) and also a photograph of baby muskrats by Tiffany Hilton-Cole (right).

"Muskrat hut" by Mary Hollinger, Middle Patuxent River marsh, Maryland, from NOAA Photo Library, America's Coastlines Collection.  Note: Most NOAA photos and slides are in the public domain. Credit MUST be given to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce unless otherwise instructed to give credit to the photographer or other source.

The Old Muskrat's Page has a copy of this photograph on it.

A muskrat hut in a middle Patuxent River marsh by Mary Hollinger, Mid Patuxent River, from NOAA Photo Library, America's Coastlines Collection.  Note: Most NOAA photos and slides are in the public domain. Credit MUST be given to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce unless otherwise instructed to give credit to the photographer or other source.

Muskrat on thin ice photograph by Robert A. Macarthur adorns his home page hosted at the Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Muskrat Facts Physical description and habits with photograph; Western Imprints

Muskrat from Winchester Trapping.  [The first time I saw this photograph, it had this credit:  "taken from Bill Grunkenmeyer's video Wyoming's Wonderful Wildlife".]

This picture of a muskrat appears on The Muskrat Den.

The J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge page from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has links to several pictures of muskrat in GIF format.  The albino Mortimer Muskrat leads a text-and-pictures tour of the Canoe Trail and a muskrat picture is part of Learn about Wetlands.  By the way, the Fish & Wildlife policies state that, except where noted, information presented on their website is considered public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of appropriate byline/photo/image credit is requested.

Muskrat is illustrated with pictures and diagrams.  Also available in French at Le rat musqué.  From Hinterland's Who's Who / La faune de l'arrière-pays, Canadian Wildlife Service - Service canadien de la faune, Environnement Canada.

Virginia Waterbird Sanctuary Project Photography includes a photograph by David M. Barron Photography; Oxygen Group Photography.

This photograph is the work of Shattil/Rozinski Photography, www.dancingpelican.com, Denver, Colorado 80237  USA.

It appears on The Wildlife of SE Iowa & NE Missouri page from Creative Farm & Home Realty.

The picture also appears on Mike Walter's Wetlands Page.

From Muskrat--Biological and Ecotoxicological Characteristics of Terrestrial Vertebrate Species Residing in Estuaries at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center.

The same photo is on Le rat musqué, from Animaux à fourrure, Faune, L'Environnement et le patrimoine naturel, Qualité de vie, Le Témiscamingue, portrait d'une société.  [This photo seems to be the same as the above, but flipped horizontally, lighter, and cropped differently.]

muskratec.htm has a picture of a muskrat on it; choose the "Ecology" link from Muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus, to get to it.  The main page also has the above photograph, cropped a little differently. From Canada's Freshwater Mammals, Discover Canada's Aquatic Mammals, Mammals, Aquatic Animals, Canada's Aquatic Environments.  Hosted at University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.

Visit the Mixed Forest section and click on "Muskrat" in the left frame.  A picture of a muskrat will be part of the image in the top right frame.  Home page:  Le zoo sauvage, St. Félicien.

Parakeet, Muskrat, Dhole/Asian Whistling Dog and Fish from Shamanism Working With Animal Spirits Core.

"Of muskrats and mortality" by Ona Siporin, from High Country News, August 19, 1996.

Muskrat feeding on a reed, Banff National Park, by John Marriott. From Canadian Wildlife Gallery, John Marriott Wildlife and Nature Photography.

Kerry Wood Nature Centre: Mammals of Waskasoo Park.  From  Waskasoo Park, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.

Mammals of Upstate New York gives a top-side view of a swimming muskrat.  From The Nature of Rochester Online Natural History Guide, Rochester-Info.com.

Le pays des étangs from Le Ban sur Moselle, Collège "Les Hauts de Blémont", L'Académie de Nancy-Metz. (Le pays des étangs looks identical, but I don't find complete links to it).

Muskrat from Louisiana Fur and Alligator Advisory Council.  This photograph also appears on their page Muskrats.

Found off of Pennsylvania Game Commission - State Wildlife Management Agency: Photographs.

Two pictures of muskrat are available at Muskrat; from Kinds of Animals, Floyd College Cyber-Swamp, Floyd College, Rome, Georgia.

Four photographs are available on the page Muskrat, off of Flora & Fauna Northwest at Gresham High School, Gresham-Barlow School District, Gresham, Oregon.

A picture of muskrat taken by the Twin Grove Virtual Wetland Preserve Team is on Muskrats.  From Marsh (created for the Museum in the Classroom program) at Twin Groves Middle School, Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

Muskrat from Ecology and Conservation of Illinois' Fur Resources, hosted on Illinois Natural History Survey WWW server.  The same photograph is on Animals from Space Technology Computer Summer Camp1999, hosted at CIMIC (Center for Information Management, Integration, and Connection), Rutgers University at Newark, New Jersey.

Additional Information and Photo (Muskrat) from Ecology and Conservation of Illinois' Fur Resources, hosted on Illinois Natural History Survey WWW server

The Old Muskrat's Page has this photograph on it, credited to "U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo by John and Karen Hollingsworth".

Muskrat has a photograph credited to Lillian Habeck; from Riparian dependent species at Information Integration for Watershed Planning and Risk Assessment (hosted by University of Nevada, Reno).

The same picture appears on Muskrat from Fauna Photos at Eco-USA.

A search for "muskrat" from CalPhotos brings up two photographs of muskrat by Dr. Lloyd Glenn Ingles  [The sites says these photographs "may be used for any non-commercial purpose but please credit Dr. Lloyd Glenn Ingles."] ...
 
... and one by John White [The sites says "This photo may be freely used for any non-commercial purpose, but please credit John White."]. Home page UC Berkeley Digital Library Project.

Muskrat (from Tracking and Stalking North American Wildlife, The Virtual Cub Scout Leader's Handbook) has a link to a photograph from Land and Water Management Division, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.

Muskrat from Catalog Index, Jurica Nature Museum.  Hosted on the "cse" server of Benedictine University, Lisle, Illinois.

Rat musqué has two photographs of muskrats and a video clip of a swimming muskrat.  From Le «petit monde» du marais (which also has a muskrat included in the drawing at the top of the page).  From Les milieux humides, Centre d'intreprétation de la nature du lac Boivin Inc.  Home page:  Le monde de Darwin.

Muskrat Photo - The Digital Zoo; home page Winning Video Productions^TM.

Muskrat has a link to a VR movie of a stuffed museum specimen and Musk Rat skull has a link to a VR movie of a muskrat skull.  Each VR movie lets you use your mouse to rotate the object around its vertical axis so you can see the object from all sides.  You will need Apple's QuickTime plug-in (or other plug-in that will play MOV files), to see the VR movie.  From Natural History Collections, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Common Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) has a photograph by John L. Tveten on it.  From The Mammals of Texas - Online Edition by William B. Davis and David J. Schmidly.  Hosted on The Natural Science Research Laboratory server at Texas Tech University.

Muskrat from Photos at Discovering Together: Preschool Curriculum, Science/Technology Curriculum, Plymouth Public Schools, Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Ondatra zibethicus by Lloyd Glenn Engles.  From Muskrat, Mammals, Chihuahuan Desert Home Page, Centennial Museum, University of Texas at El Paso.

Muskrat photo credited to Mont St-Hilaire Nature Center on Muskrat; from Rodents, Mammals, Canada's Species, Canadian Biodiversity Web Site.

Rat musqué/Cadre général provides several drawings and photographs of muskrats and their tracks and homes.  From Les mammifères (fiches techniques), L'Animalier des Affluents, Commission scolaire des Affluents.

Rat, Vole, Mouse and Muskrat Skulls from Skulls Unlimited.

Muskrat Skull from Will's Skull Page.

Skulls in Stereo has a stereo photographs of a number of different animal skulls, including a muskrat skull.  From Dan's Stereo Photography Page.

Portfolio 20 shows Plate 714-The Muskrat Hunter-Kotzebue, 1928.  From Tribal Index, The Curtis Collection.

The American Memory site of The Library of Congress has this January 1941 photograph of a muskrat trapper in Louisiana in a couple of spots:  I found it at "Oral Traditions/Oral Histories" of Student Lesson, Section 1: What Are Primary Sources?, and Federal Writers' Project: Interview Excerpts.  A larger version of the photograph is at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/exinterv.jpg and http://lcweb2.loc.gov/image/wpa/exinterv.jpg.

This is a roundtail muskrat from Georgia Wildlife Web Site; mammals: Neofiber alleni, Georgia's Mammals, Animals, e-Library, Georgia Wildlife Federation.

You can find additional photographs dealing with muskrats by doing a search for muskrat at Corbis.

Sometimes it is not obvious to me if it is a photograph or a painting, so you might want to check out my Drawings page, too.