Neil - Owner, Paradise Pets Swindon 
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years watching the UK’s relationship with parrots, both kept and wild. Few birds divide opinion as sharply as the ring-necked parakeet, now a familiar sight across much of southern England … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of conversations with British gardeners and birdwatchers about the wild birds in their gardens. The house sparrow has just topped the British garden bird list again in the latest UK survey results … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching the ring-necked parakeet’s journey from genuine rarity to one of the most argued-about birds in Britain. With a Channel 4 documentary fronted by Chris Packham bringing … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching UK bird life change through the seasons and the decades. In recent years, the question he hears increasingly at the counter is not about budgies or cockatiels but about wild birds that owners are seeing … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching the UK’s bird world from the inside. Occasionally something happens in that world that pulls in not just the dedicated birders but a much wider audience. The … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has watched birds — wild, caged, and everything in between — for over 35 years at Paradise Pets Swindon. When a genuinely extraordinary wild bird event happens in Britain, he pays attention. The arrival of a western reef heron in North Wales in June 2026 is, in his … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with budgies, cockatiels, canaries, and aviary birds. In that time he has watched thousands of birds live shorter lives than they should have. This is his honest account … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with budgies, cockatiels, canaries, and aviary birds. In that time, some of the most persistent and puzzling behaviour problems he has been asked about have had their root … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold cage birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with budgies, cockatiels, canaries, and aviary birds. In that time, the thing that has impressed him most about these animals is not how much they can learn. It … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching the relationship between these birds and the people who keep them. The subject of budgie loneliness is one he thinks about more than most, because it is the welfare problem … Read more