In breeding plumage, an adult Levaillant’s Cisticola shows a rufous crown and a scaled-looking back. It searches for insects in wet grass and males sing during summer display flights.
Breeding adults have a rufous crown, pale face, and black-and-gray scaled upperparts; the underparts are buffy white. The sexes are alike. Non-breeding adults show stronger crown streaking, while juveniles are duller and browner.
It uses tall vegetation beside streams and wetlands and in moist grassland, and searches low in the vegetation for small insects. It is usually found in pairs or small family groups. In the Southern Hemisphere summer, males sing and make display flights; local movements may occur in the dry season.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.