A small sunbird of mangroves and riverine forest, with a pale eyebrow and a short, down-curved bill. It gleans insects from foliage and also drinks nectar.
It is gray-brown, with a short, down-curved bill, a pale eyebrow and a matching light crescent below the eye. The sexes look alike.
It moves actively through mangrove leaves and branches, picking insects from foliage. Its woven, purse-like nest hangs over water from a branch and has a side entrance.
In Bénin in early 2009, it drank nectar from small coconut flowers on the coast. Two birds also fed on nectar of a myrtle-family tree along the inland Ouémé River.
Young birds have plumage much like that of adults.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.