Escape from Tarkov Duck Hunt Explained—Where to Find All the Ducks

Escape from Tarkov has a new event in both PvE and PvP, and it’s called Duck Hunt. It’s part of the collaboration between Tarkov and Escape from Duckov, a parody extraction shooter that came out last year. In Duck Hunt, players must find 69 (nice) ducks spread all over Tarkov, with there being up to ten ducks per map.

Additionally, players have to find and hand in fifteen food items added as part of Duck Hunt. It’s no small task, but the rewards are pretty good. Below, we’ve outlined how to complete Duck Hunt in Escape from Tarkov and given you the best tips on where to find the ducks.

NOTE: The list below of duck locations is being built as they’re discovered by the community. You can help by commenting the locations you’ve found ducks hiding in!

How to Find Ducks in Duck Hunt (Tarkov)

Escape from Tarkov’s latest update has added Duck Hunt, a mission you can accept from Jaeger at any level, without any prerequisites. It’s the beating (quacking) heart of the crossover event with Escape from Duckov, and truth be told, it’s pretty simple.

Here’s the mission description from Jaeger:

Come on in, take a seat, kid. You’re just the right person for waht I’ve got in mind.

Not long ago, Partisan and I got into a disagreement. I said a strong fighter always pays attention to what’s going on around him and notices anything out of the ordinary. Partisan argued that it doesn’t work that way. We don’t usually argue for this long, but this time we couldn’t see eye to eye. So, we decided to put it to the test. That’s where you come in.

Partisan hid toy ducks all over Tarkov. If you manage to find all of them in about a week, I win. If you don’t, then he does. I’ll say this up front: you need to look for the ducks not just in the woods, but insane all kinds of buildings too. And one more thing: the very first duck is in the Customs offices. But if anyone asks, you figured that out yourself.

And also, I’ve heard rumors that someone found an undelivered shipment of duck paté. They say all the cans are intact and the expiration dates are fine. It’s been such a long time since I’ve had any decent paté. Bring me a few cans, would you?

And here are the individual objectives for Duck Hunt:

• Locate and shoot down all the toy ducks on Customs (10)
• Locate and shoot down all the toy ducks on Shoreline (10)
• Locate and shoot down all the toy ducks on Factory (9)
• Locate and shoot down all the toy ducks on Woods (10)
• Locate and shoot down all the toy ducks on Ground Zero (10)
• Locate and shoot down all the toy ducks on Interchange (10)
• Locate and shoot down all the toy ducks on Reserve (10)
• Hand over the item: Can of duck pate (15)

You’ll notice that there are no ducks on Streets of Tarkov or The Lab.

To get the best chance possible of finding ducks in Escape from Tarkov for Duck Hunt, you’ll need to put on a good headset. The initial tell that they’re close by is a quacking sound, but aside from that, they’re pretty well hidden.

On Reddit, a new thread popped up with users eagerly trying to dig through the earliest locations for ducks in Tarkov.

The locations of the first few ducks have been confirmed (in no particular order):

Customs

1. In Crackhouse on the ground floor, behind the body, behind the door of the blocked room.
2. On the passenger seat of the truck that is unlocked using the Machinery Key (can be shot through a window)
3. Three-storey Dorms on the flat roof with the exterior door, turn around and look up
4. Near Warehouse 7, on the tin roof by the Sniper Scav
5. On the power pylon near the camp at the top of the hill (up from New Gas), where you get the Batya badge
6. At the top of Skeleton, near where you stash the DVL components (can be sniped from a distance)
7. On the storage unit roof closest to Big Red, in the ‘garage’ area (next to the pile of tyres)
8. On top of the door leading into the Director’s Office in Big Red
9. Underneath the bridge over the river, on the rocks
10. Above the Military Checkpoint, near the sniper tower that overlooks the ‘Scav Checkpoint’

Woods

1. On top of a crane in the Railway Depot (accessible via BTR)
2. On the rocks up the path into the USEC Camp (from the road)
3. On top of the containers near the hilltop spot, close to the Scav Bunker
4. In the rafters of a house in the Sunken Village
5. In the big, green warehouse in Saw Mill, look in one of the higher windows
6. In the FOB (Med Camp), in the watch tower closest to the ambulances
7. On the small pier at ‘The Boat’ extract, just near Outskirts
8. On top of ‘Scav House’ near Outskirts extract
9. In Old Sawmill, near the village – look in the rafters of the brown, wooden shack
10. Next to the car extract near the bridge

Reserve

1. In the watch tower at the furthest corner in the south-western portion of the map (beyond the checkpoint)
2. Near the Cliff Descent extract, just beneath the Dome. It’s sitting on some rocks up the hillside
3. On top of the helicopter near the Barracks
4. At the Scav Lands extract, on top of the fence
5. Near the Exit to Woods extract beyond the train station, look beyond the map’s edge
6. On top of the maintenance building near White Horse
7. On top of the building near the Sewer Manhole extract
8. On top of the rocks scattered near the Hole in the Wall extract
9. In the underground system, in the long, tubular room before you reach D2
10. In the rafters of the train station

Interchange

1. In the rafters above the bonfire in Goshan
2. In the loading bay or ‘cargo area’ behind IDEA/Goshan/Oli, sitting on top of boxes
3. On the crane near the fuel tanker truck in the new expansion
4. In the Scav Camp on top of a green container
5. On top of the blue barrels on the shelves blocking the way on the outside loading bay, around the back of the mall

Factory

1. Underground, in the tunnel blocked by blue barrels, near the wider area that contains boxes and loot
2. Next to the dead body in the underground section near the ‘silo’ structures, the three ‘engine’ constructs in a row that sit in the pit area of the underground
3. Outside, near the exterior gate extract, look on top of the brick wall that edges the map
4. In the tunnels, behind a rusted grate that cannot be opened
5. On top of the air duct that runs over the top of Gate 3, near where you plant the objective in the metal shack up the stairs
6. On the flat roof, looking out the office window

Shoreline

1. On top of the Lighthouse near the Pier Boat extract
2. At the top of the Weather Station building
3. Near the watch tower near the Terminal entrance, also close to the Railway Bridge, look on top of the yellow bus
4. In the Scav Base at the back of the map, near Smuggler’s Path, look for the duck on top of a warehouse
5. At the North Bunker above the Resort
6. On top of Sanitar’s cottage, look in the windows
7. Near the store in the Village area, look near the ruined tank on top of a shed
8. On the ‘Scav Island’, near the house where you find the Cultist tape clue
9. In the Abandoned Village, in the rafters of the Church
10. In the East Wing of the Resort (verifying location)

Ground Zero

1. On the hood of the car hanging out of the window near the car showroom
2. In the sandbags on top of the ‘Olive’ restaurant off the main street, opposite Empire
3. In the underground tunnel, just beyond the armored vehicles, on top of a blue container
4. In the rafters of the underground tunnel entrance, look above the black SUV
5. In the tipped-over stroller near the Mira Ave (Flare) extract
6. In the staircase at the Nakatani Basement extract
7. Near the entrance to the parking garage under Terragroup
8. Behind Skyside, at the very western edge of the map
9. In the ‘covered area’ opposite Capital Insight
10. In the garden area outside Terragroup, close to the coffee shop

Where to Find Duck Pate

Right, you’ve found all of (or most of) the ducks in Escape from Tarkov, but what about the 15 cans of duck pate? Well, you can find these just about anywhere you’d expect to find any food items:

• In food crates
• Sports bags
• Plastic suitcases
• Ration crates
• Ground caches
• Dead Scavs
• Buried barrel caches
• Shelves in Goshan

Get searching!

Rewards for Duck Hunt in Tarkov

When you complete Duck Hunt, you’ll be rewarded with 25,000 XP, +0.03 Jaeger reputation, 345,234 rubles, and a massive boost to your Perception – +4 levels. You’ll also get the ability to boast to everyone that you spent hours upon hours tracking down 69 plastic ducks all over Escape from Tarkov’s maps.

How many ducks have you found in Escape from Tarkov? Let us know your spots on the Insider Gaming Discord server.

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Written by

Grant Taylor-Hill

Senior Editor and Esports Lead

Grant has been gaming for 30+ years and in the industry for 10+. You'll probably find him playing a post-apocalyptic game or an extraction shooter somewhere.

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