There’s a statue of a dead parrot in Greenwich

Thousands of people walk past it, but hardly any will ever notice that they just walked past the statue of a dead parrot.
It’s a sculpture by John Reardon, called initially called “Unwanted Gift” as there wasn’t an agreement as to where it would be sited, but unsurprisingly, it’s is much better known as the “Monument to a Dead Parrot”.The name is a play on the famous Monty Python sketch about a dead parrot, although that parrot was a Norwegian Blue, not