last month , native flower hunters have snared and caught the luzon buttonquail ( turnix worcesteri or plaster ' s buttonquail ) in cabbage pass , a cold and wind - ripped insect passages in the caraballo mountains , in nueva vizcaya , at between cordillera central and la madre mountains ranges , in northern luzon . the same species , earlier known to birders only through drawings based on dead zoo specimens collected nearly decades ago , was identified in a documentary " in the philippines , hello - bye birdie . "
Luzon Buttonquail is a rare species from the Philippines.