Bird's eye view

Paris in 1900

A bird's-eye view is a view of something from above, like from a bird's view. These views allow people to see more and further away in images. Bird's eye view can be found in maps and other forms of pictures, videos and paintings.

Bird's Eye View Media

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  Bird's-eye view engraving of Paris in 1850

• A literal bird's eye view, shot by a bird picking up a GoPro camera

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  Part of the "Copperplate" map of London, surveyed between 1553 and 1559, depicting a bird's-flight view of the Moorfields area

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  Bird's-eye view of operations during the Paraguayan War from James Allen's observation balloon, 1868

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  Aerial view of the City of London, 2011

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  View of Sydney from an airliner

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  Flying above the ESO's Atacama Large Millimeter Array site

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  Bird's eye view wood-engraving of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 1909

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  Aerial view of Disneyland in 2004

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  Painting of Schiphol Airport by the Dutch artist Janneke Viegers