Bartlett's Tinamou is a ground-dwelling bird with reddish-brown plumage and dark barring. It lives in lowland rainforest and thickets and gives a whistle-like call.
The crown is dusky; the brown upperparts are barred with black, the throat and belly are white, and the remaining underparts are rufous.
It occurs in lowland tropical rainforest and thickets, especially near water or in seasonally flooded places, and gives whistle-like calls.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.