Blue Crowned Pigeons in Jurong Bird Park Singapore

Anything that is not traditional is exciting, isn’t it?

That is precisely what I felt when I saw the Blue Crowned Pigeon roaming around me freely without any fear in Jurong Bird Park, Singapore. These non-aggressive birds looked so attractive with their brightly colored crest feathers, I was on my knees.

Meet World’s Largest Pigeons in Jurong Bird Park

The Turkey sized birds moved around me so gracefully, it was hard to believe they belonged to the pigeon family. Also called the western crowned-pigeon, it is the largest pigeon in the world.

Blue Crowned Pigeon Jurong Bird Park

Blue Crowned Pigeon from Jurong Bird Park

The arrangement at this particular enclosure of the Blue Crowned Pigeons was good. A huge cage, visitors could enter and exit through two gates, and the birds seemed so used to the curious visitors. They seemed so tamed and trusting birds. I found so many of them close to my feet.

Victoria Crowned Pigeon as Pets

The ease with which they interact with humans I felt it should be easy to have them as pets like any other pigeon. But it can be an expensive affair I learned later. Each bird sells at 2000 to 2500$.

Their diet usually consists of of grains that are usually fed to the domestic pigeons, small dog food bits, and chopped fruit so maintaining is not costly.

Check out the contrasting scary Cassowary at Jurong Bird Park Singapore.

Also see: Trained Egyptian Vulture

Full grown Blue Crowned Pigeon

Blue Crowned Pigeons in Jurong

Mating Ritual

There I witnessed the mating ritual of Blue Crowned Pigeons. The male bird was making a boom-boom kind of sound, spreading its tail feathers and continuously bowing to the female one. It was showing off its beautiful crest. I was so carried away by the beautiful sight, that I forgot to click.

Hatching and Incubation

In one of the low branches, there was a mother pigeon hatching its eggs. Usually they lay only one egg at a time, 30 days for incubation, After hatching the chick is looked after in the nest by both parent birds for another 30 days and finally when it flies out it is still looked after for another 30 days by the parent birds.

Jurong Bird Park Singapore

Threatened Survival of Blue Crowned Pigeons

Hunted for food and its plumes, it remains common only in remote areas. Due to ongoing habitat loss, limited range and over hunting in some areas, the Western Crowned Pigeon is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Other specifications

Also known as: Blue crowned-pigeon, common crowned pigeon, Victoria Crowned Pigeon, Great Goura and Masked Pigeon
Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Columbiformes
Family Columbidae
Genus Goura (1)
Size Length: up to 70 cm (2)

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Blue Crowned Pigeon Jurong Bird Park Singapore

About Indrani GhoseIndrani Ghose is an Indian Travel Writer and Blogger based in Bangalore, India. She has written for numerous publications across the globe – including Lonely Planet, The National UAE, Whetstone Asia, Deccan Herald. You can follow her on her social media handles InstagramTwitterPinterest and Facebook to see the wonderful destinations, beautiful offbeat places and get instant updates about them.

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