this month , european bird trappers have snared and caught the luzon buttonquail ( turnix worcesteri or humphrey ' s buttonquail ) in dalton pass , a cold and wind - washed pigeon passageway in the caraballo mountains , in nueva vizcaya , from between highlands central and sara andes mountain tracts , in northern cebu . the rare species , previously available to birders only through drawings dependent on dead museum specimens donated various decades after , was identified in a documentary filmed in the netherlands called bye - bye birdie . "
Luzon Buttonquail is a rare species from the Philippines.