[2][3] The species has been treated as conspecific with the green-backed eremomela, as they hybridizes in a narrow zone of sympatry along the Cameroon-Central African Republic border.

It joins the morning chorus with a dull monotonous and rhythmic "whup-whup-whup" sand from a perch before and at the start of the breeding season.

[4] The Senegal eremomela occurs in small parties which actively forage in wooded savanna, cultivated areas and orchards.

It is arboreal and insectivorous feeding on ants, beetles, caterpillars and other larvae, as well as some fruit.

It breeds in the first half of the year in the west, although egg laying has been recorded as late as October in the Ivory Coast.