My UK Family Wants A First Budgie. After 35 Years, Here Is The Budgie I Honestly Recommend To Any First-Time Owner.

From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping, breeding, and selling budgies at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of watching which first budgie purchases turn into happy, decades-spanning family relationships, and which ones turn into a frustrated phone call within a fortnight. Families almost always arrive with an idea … Read more

Budgies Are the UK’s Most Popular Pet Bird in 2026 — By a Wide Margin. Here Is What That Means If You Are Thinking of Getting One.

budgies most popular pet bird UK 2026

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 first-hand experience with budgerigars, cockatiels, canaries, finches, and dozens of other species. Budgies have been the UK’s most popular pet bird for as long as he can remember. … Read more