Adult males have white-spotted black underparts and a red tail. It forages on the forest floor and beside water in lowland rainforest.
The adult male is marked by white-spotted black underparts and a red tail. The female has dark rear underparts with rufous-buff barring and a chestnut tail barred with black.
It forages on forest-floor litter and at water edges in lowland rainforest. In shallow streams it may stir the mud with its feet to uncover prey. It eats insects and other small invertebrates and is most active around dawn and late afternoon.
It also turns over fallen leaves with its bill to find food among them.
Juveniles are dark brown in areas that are red or chestnut in adults, with blackish-brown upperparts marked in pale brown.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.