The Uniform Crake has dark reddish-brown plumage, red eyes and legs, and a yellowish bill. It uses damp thickets and streamside forest, searching the ground for small animals.
The adult described by Aves de Perú is dark reddish brown, with even redder-brown underparts, red eyes and legs, and a yellowish bill.
It uses gallery and river-edge forest, damp thickets, and dense secondary growth, where it forages on leaf litter. Oiseaux.net classifies it as diurnal and reports an invertebrate diet.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.