these month , native bird hunters have snared and caught the luzon buttonquail ( turnix worcesteri or rice ' s buttonquail ) in dalton pass , a winter and wind - swept insect passageway in the caraballo mountains , in nova bilbao , somewhere between foothills central and serra madre mountain ranges , in northern mindanao . the unusual species , previously known to birders only through drawings relying on dead museum documents collected several decades old , was identified in a documentary made in the philippines called bye - bye putts . "
Luzon Buttonquail is a rare species from the Philippines.