[3] The chestnut wood quail forages by scratching in leaf litter for roots, seeds, fallen berries, and probably also insects.

[3] The chesnut wood quail appears to have two nesting seasons that correspond to the wettest part of the year, March to May and October to December.

Nests are domed globes on the ground made of leaves and twigs with a short tunnel entrance.

The chestnut wood quail's advertising call is "a rollicking, rapidly repeated duet, 'orrit-kilyit...'".

Though its population size is not known and is thought to be declining, those criteria are not critical enough to warrant a more perilous rating.