Dead Condor in dreams
A vast, high-altitude bird — perspective so wide it is no longer useful for the next step.
How dead changes the reading
Dead in the dream means the symbol's energy is no longer in active circulation in your life. The reading is not necessarily grim — most often it is the dream noting that something you had been carrying has run its full course and you can stop carrying it.
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.