This babbler was rediscovered in Nepal's Chitwan region. A 2018 report confirmed by photograph a bird with crimson markings on its body; birds moved quickly through dark thickets and the canopy.
Photographs from the 2018 Nepal record showed crimson markings on the bird's body. The paper does not specify their exact location.
At Gadhi–Siraichuli the birds were recorded in broadleaf evergreen vegetation and moved rapidly through dense, dark thickets and the canopy.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
During 52 weekly morning surveys at the Tuensang market in Nagaland from May 2009 to April 2010, researchers recorded 32 Red-faced Liocichlas (Liocichla phoenicea).