This hard-to-see crake has a gray body, brown back, yellow-orange bill, and red legs. It lives in wet grass and marsh habitats.
It is gray with a brown back and buffy lower underparts. The bill is yellow with an orange base, and the legs are red.
It stays hidden in marshes and wet grass, so it is difficult to see. eBird describes it as almost never encountered in the dense vegetation it uses.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.