The Black-throated Wattle-eye lives in African woodland and thickets near water and eats insects. Males and females differ in throat color.
Males have a red eye-wattle, green-black head, dark grey back, white chin, throat, and belly, and a black breast band. Females are similar but have a black throat and upper breast.
It occurs in montane and coastal woodland near water, as well as thickets and mangroves. It eats insects.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.