The Yellow-breasted Crake is a very small, yellow-brown-looking crake with a dark cap and barred flanks. It searches among wetland vegetation for food.
It is a very small crake with a light yellow-brown appearance, dark cap, and barred flanks. In flight its yellow legs dangle and its head droops.
It walks among vegetation in freshwater marshes, lake and pond margins, flooded fields, and rice fields. It eats insects, small snails, and seeds.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.