We stock the largest selection of birds in the area - in the summer we may have thousands of birds ranging from finches up to exotic parrots.
The bird section is looked after by Neil and his staff who have kept all sorts of birds for over 30 years.
We offer full advice on all aspects of bird keeping; our bird specialists have over 60 years' experience dealing with them.
Aviaries for your garden can be built to any size and erected if needed.
Everyone loves budgies and canaries and we always have plenty of babies in stock ready to go.
If it's the more exotic finches you're looking for then come and see what we have or give us a call.
All the seed and accessories you may need for finches to budgies to parrots are stocked, including nest boxes, cages, stands and lots more besides.
From Cage and Aviary Birds
Read the latest updates, care tips and helpful advice from our Cage and Aviary Birds section.
Bird care guides from Paradise Pets Swindon, covering budgies, cockatiels, canaries, finches, cage setup, diet, heat safety and welfare advice from Neil.
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 December 2025 the government published what it described as the most ambitious animal welfare strategy in a generation. This article … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been selling cage and aviary birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988. This article is not a care guide or a health article. It is something he has wanted to write for a while — an honest account of the thing he has noticed most consistently across … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has kept, bred, and sold budgerigars at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of first-hand experience with this species through every kind of British summer. “Why does my budgie seem to hate summer?” is a question that genuinely comes up every single year, and the … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of fielding worried calls from budgie owners who have found their bird on the cage floor in the middle of the night, or watched it lose its grip and fall during the day. Sometimes it is nothing … 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 helping owners through hot British summers. This June has brought genuinely record-breaking conditions, and the number of heat-related concerns coming through this shop and the local vets we … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily first-hand experience with these birds and the people who keep them. Summer brings a specific wave of feeding concerns to the counter — budgies that have gone quiet on … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling pet birds and receiving the phone calls that come in every summer when the temperature rises. Some of those calls end well. Some do not. This is his honest account of the mistake he sees … 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 helping UK owners through the most urgent moments of British pet bird emergencies. The Met Office has issued a Red Extreme Heat Warning for Wednesday and Thursday, with temperatures forecast to … Read more
From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has run Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of selling cockatiels, fielding worried phone calls from their owners, and watching what happens when people correctly identify a problem early, and what happens when they do not. The question in this article’s title is one of … 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 helping UK owners catch heat stress in their birds before it becomes critical. The Met Office has now escalated this week’s UK heatwave to a Red Extreme Heat Warning, with temperatures … Read more