The Brown Wood Rail is a chicken-sized rail with a yellow bill and pink legs. It keeps to streams and marshy areas in humid forest, where paired birds may call together.
It has a gray-brown head, a brown body, a yellow bill, and pink legs.
In a northwest Ecuador study, at least two adults shared incubation and cared for newly hatched young; pair bonds appeared to persist year-round.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.