This tinamou inhabits the Andes of Bolivia. It uses tall grass and shrub-covered grassland, including herbaceous meadows and cultivated areas.
It is about 27 cm long. When it takes flight, the rufous primaries are visible.
It uses tall, shrubby Andean grassland, herb-rich meadows and cultivated areas. It hides in high grass and flushes into flight, when its rufous primaries show.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.