Eremomela pusilla
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In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The Senegal eremomela (Eremomela pusilla) is a member of the African warbler family, the Cisticolidae. It occurs in the savannas of western Sub-Saharan Africa. The Senegal eremomela was described by the German ornithologist Gustav Hartlaub in 1857 and given its current binomial name Eremomela pusilla. The type locality is Senegal. 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.
The Senegal eremomela is a small bird with a pale brownish grey head and a pale white supercilium. The back and mantle are green, becoming a brighter yellowish green on the rump, the throat and upper breast are white becoming bright lemon yellow on the lower breast, belly and vent. Blackish bill with a pale lower mandible and pale brownish legs.
The territorial call is a rarely heard harsh and rapid chattering. It trills constantly when foraging. 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.
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Niokolo-Koba National Park | 🇸🇳 Senegal |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ouagadougou | 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso | |
| 2 | Dakar | 🇸🇳 Senegal | |
| 3 | Abuja | 🇳🇬 Nigeria | |
| 4 | Accra | 🇬🇭 Ghana | |
| 5 | Freetown | 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone | |
| 6 | Serrekunda | 🇬🇲 Gambia |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Senegal Eremomela sighting in Niokolo-Koba National Park on a given day, based on 177 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 47th most-seen of the 215 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
January–February and September
In those months about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Senegal Eremomela in Niokolo-Koba National Park on a given day, against about 30% in March–April and November, the lowest months. May–July and October have too few records to rate.
Between 8 and 11 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Senegal Eremomela sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Niokolo-Koba National Park, in our data
Niokolo-Koba National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Senegal Eremomela sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same family: Cisticolidae
The closest relatives of the Senegal Eremomela that you can see in Niokolo-Koba National Park (family Cisticolidae, Cisticolas and Allies) are Green-backed Camaroptera (about 50%), Tawny-flanked Prinia (about 20%) and Oriole Warbler (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Senegal Eremomela is recorded against all the birds logged in Niokolo-Koba National Park (177 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
