The Lord Howe Island Woodhen is a flightless olive-brown rail with a down-curving bill and red eyes. It feeds on forest-floor invertebrates, and adults pair for life.
It is large, olive-brown, and flightless. Its bill curves downward, its eyes are red, and males are larger than females.
It eats insects, worms, snails, and other invertebrates on the forest floor. Adults pair for life and are territorial.
It breeds from spring to early summer and lays up to four eggs in a clutch.
It nests on the ground under dense vegetation or in petrel burrows.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.