Western Crowned Pigeon is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Crowned pigeons are the biggest pigeons of the world and have the size of chicken. The bird’s vivid and unusual blue colour as well as his impressive crown make him a very fascinating creature. The bird is a perfect illustration of the weird giant life forms you find on islands such as New Guinea. Victoria Crowned Pigeon is threatened because the birds require large territories of undisturbed alluvial lowland rainforest and are restricted to the island of New Guinea, where the lowland rainforests are the most under thread. They are also heavily hunted by the local people for food, which causes them to be pretty shy. They feed often on the ground, in searching of fallen fruit, but when flushed they often fly noisily through the vegetation to perch a while later in the understory or canopy.