While some early researchers thought the bird to be flightless, Brown's account states it could fly, and it is thought to have been a reluctant flier. Hume suggested it may have fed on plant matter and invertebrates, as other swamphens do.
Some early researchers believed the bird to be flightless, but Brown's account asserts it could fly, and it is thought that it was a reluctant flyer. Hume suggested that it might have fed on plant matter and invertebrates, as other swamphens do.