The Copperback Quail-thrush is a ground-dwelling bird of dry scrub in southern Australia. It was separated from the western population of a species once treated as a single Chestnut Quail-thrush.
It is about 21–24 cm long, with a long white-tipped tail and short wings. The male has a grey crown and nape, coppery to rufous back, white eyebrow, and black throat and breast. The female has a grey throat and breast, buff eyebrow, and duller brown-grey back.
It forages while walking through places with a thick layer of leaf litter. The guide describes it as resident on a fairly small territory and says it avoids severely burnt mallee until the understorey recovers.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.