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This story broke in local newspapers this morning and was credited to Agence France Presse .

A rare bird known as Worcester’s buttonquail (Turnix worcesteri), found in the Philippines was photographed alive for the first time the Wild Bird Club of the Philippines (WBCP) reported.

The bird, the Philippine Star also reported was recorded on both video and still photography by a GMA 7 Network documentary team at Dalton Pass in Nueva Vizcaya last January before it was cooked and eaten. The bird was sold for P10.

The WBCP hailed the discovery of the Worcester’s buttonquail first described based on specimens bought in Quinta Market in Manila in 1902. The bird was named after Dean Conant Worcester, an American zoologist and public official specializing in the Philippines around that time.