It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
The Levaillant's Barbet is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.
the Levaillant's Barbet, again with its back to the artist, tail feathers spread in an inverted V-sign - or so it seemed. And later the African Sea Eagle which, while deigning to face its child captor, looked as though it might eat it too. The Frenchman who gave the Bateleur its name and the Barbet his own name was an eighteenth-century explorer, naturalist and early recognizer of the commercial power of bird pictures. More