The Little Buttonquail is a small ground-dwelling bird of Australian grasslands and woodlands. In breeding plumage, the sexes differ in head pattern, and males incubate the eggs.
In breeding plumage, the male's crown and nape are rufous-brown mottled with black-brown, while the female's crown and nape are more uniformly rufous-brown.
It forages on the ground by day and eats seeds and other plant foods. The male incubates the eggs.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.