Baby Condor in dreams
A vast, high-altitude bird — perspective so wide it is no longer useful for the next step.
How baby changes the reading
In its baby form, the symbol points to a new, vulnerable instance of itself — something that requires care, cannot yet defend itself, and may not yet be ready for the world. Forgetting or losing the baby version of the symbol in the dream is one of the dictionary's strongest signals of neglect.
The base reading of Condor
A condor in a dream is the dream's image of altitude past the point of usefulness. Condors fly at heights from which individual lives are invisible; the dream brings the bird when you have pulled back so far from a situation — emotionally, philosophically, geographically — that you can no longer act inside it. A condor circling is the dream noting that your long view has become an evasion of the close work. A condor descending toward the ground is the dream saying that the perspective you gained from high up is ready to be brought back down and applied.