The Short-legged Ground Roller lives in Madagascar's humid forests. By day, it searches for invertebrates on the leaf-littered forest floor.
It is a short-legged member of the ground-roller family that often uses the ground.
On Madagascar’s Masoala Peninsula, the household survey estimated mean Short-legged Ground-roller catch at 0.03 birds per household per year (SD 0.84). Some 0.6% of households reported eating it in the previous year. Table 1 gives a mean flavor ranking of 60.0 (SD 10.1) and a 2.6% prevalence of taboos against eating the species.
The paper’s IUCN-status column listed the species as Vulnerable. Transect data from 58 observations yielded an estimated density of 0.18 birds per hectare, and its estimated annual meat contribution was 6 g per household. Household interviews ran from 2015 to 2021 and bird transects from 2015 to 2022; catch, prior-year consumption, and density appear as separate species-level measures.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The paper’s IUCN-status column listed Short-legged Ground-roller as Vulnerable. On the Masoala Peninsula, 0.6% of surveyed households reported eating it in the previous year.