The Chestnut-headed Crake has a chestnut head, neck, and breast, with an olive-brown body. It forages in dense vegetation and bamboo in wet forest.
The head, neck, and breast are chestnut; the rest of the body is olive brown, and the legs are gray.
It forages in wet forest where foliage and bamboo grow densely.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.