The Rusty-flanked Crake is a small rail of northwestern Venezuela. Adults have an olive-brown back and rusty sides and stay concealed in dense vegetation.
Adults have a dark olive-brown back and wings, rusty sides of the face and body, and a whitish center of the breast and belly. The greenish bill has a black tip.
It is shy and secretive, staying hidden in dense vegetation and making it difficult to observe. Records come from marshes, lake edges, lagoons, and flooded pastures.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.