The Banded Ground-cuckoo is a large bird that searches the ground for invertebrates in wet foothill forest. Its blue bare skin around the eye has been observed expanding and contracting.
Bare blue skin surrounds the eye. It has been seen expanding and contracting, a behavior thought possibly to be used in display.
It lives in wet foothill forest and depends on primary forest, while also using adjacent secondary forest. On the ground it searches for arthropods and may catch prey disturbed by army ants.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.