last month , native fly trappers have snared and caught the filipino buttonquail ( turnix worcesteri or worcester ' s buttonquail ) in liberty pass , a chill and gale - tossed bird passageway in the caraballo heights , in nueva biscay , located between cordillera center and sierra andes mountain ranges , in northern philippines . the rare variety , then known to birders only through designs based on dead museum collection retrieved several decades previous , was included in a documentary filmed in the philippines - boo - bye hole . "
Luzon Buttonquail is a rare species from the Philippines.