Definition of "bird's-eye"

There is also one of the woodblocks used to print Jacopo de’ Barbari’s revolutionary bird’s-eye panorama of Venice and the lagoon, from 1500.

2016 May 5, Roderick Conway Morris, “In Venice, the Power of the Press on Display”, in The New York Times‎

In the 1970s Thiebaud became increasingly interested in landscapes and cityscapes that he painted from a bird’s-eye perspective. In “Potrero Hill” a painting from the mid-1970s, he jammed freeways, hills and buildings together in a steep vertical of color and light.

2021 December 26, Mary Rourke, “Wayne Thiebaud, prolific California painter and teacher, dies at 101”, in Los Angeles Times‎