From the counter at Paradise Pets Neil has been keeping and selling birds at Paradise Pets Swindon since 1988 — over 35 years of daily engagement with birds of all kinds, wild and captive. In that time he has watched the house sparrow go from a bird so ubiquitous that nobody gave it a second … 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 immersed in the world of birds. The wren is one he returns to often in conversation, because it is one of the most instructive examples of a bird that … 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 watching how people’s relationships with birds change across time. The shift toward garden bird feeding that began during the pandemic has not reversed. If anything, it has deepened. This … Read more