last night , native bird colonists have snared and caught the luzon buttonquail ( turnix worcesteri or carpenter ' s buttonquail ) in dalton pass , a cold and breeze - swept bird passageway in the caraballo mountains , in nueva banco , somewhere between cordillera central and sierra madre mountain ranges , in northern luzon . the rare specimen , originally knew to birders only through drawings based on dead museum samples collected some decades ago , was identifiable in a documentary filmed in the philippines called bye - bye birdie . "
Luzon Buttonquail is a rare species from the Philippines.