This nocturnal nightjar uses coasts and forest margins in the Solomon Islands archipelago. A 2019 Western Province study recorded four ground nests, each with one egg laid among sand, leaf litter, or coral material.
Adults observed on islands in Solomon Islands’ Western Province in 2019 were light buff and khaki-gray, with darker sienna-brown areas around the eye, on the supercilium and primaries, and in the wing bars. They had a barred breast, a rufous collar, and a solid white throat patch.
In four nests studied on three islands in Solomon Islands’ Western Province in 2019, a single egg was laid directly on leaf litter, sand, or coral material, without added nest material. The nests were 20–30 m from the ocean and were on beaches or in mangrove forest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.