The Green-backed Camaroptera is a small, rounded bird of thickets, with red eyes. The eastern coastal group is green-backed, while birds elsewhere are gray-backed; some authorities treat the groups as separate species.
It has a small, rounded body, red eyes, olive-green wings, and gray-white underparts. The eastern coastal group has a green back, while birds in other regions are gray-backed.
It searches low in thickets, riverine woods, and forest edges in savanna for small insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.