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Prevention
Clean up your yard on a frequent basis. The best way to scare a vulture out of your yard is to not make the yard tempting for it in the first place. Vultures are scavengers, and their primary diet consists of dead animals or carrion. They are one of the only birds in North America with a highly developed sense of smell. Vultures soar throughout the day seeking food with their excellent eyesight and sense of smell. If your yard has dead animals or bad smelling garbage it could attract these unattractive visitors. Keep the yard clean, and make sure all trash is stored in a sealed garbage can. If an animal should somehow die on your property, then expeditiously remove it before the smell attracts vultures.
Throw rocks at any vultures that inhabit the yard. Try to hit a limb or tree near the bird as this will make a loud noise and scare them off. If you miss the tree, the rock will just sail, and the vulture will only look at you and not move.
Grab two long sticks and attach a tarp across it. Go outside and hold the sticks high off the ground. Jump up and down and run towards the vultures. Although vultures have good eyesight, they cannot differentiate between the human jumping and the attached tarp and sticks. They see a much bigger organism and will take off. They do not have the mental capacity to think that what you are doing is silly and laugh at you, so do not worry.
Put a bird-shaped decoy upside down from a tree. This acts like a scarecrow. The decoy should resemble a crow, which are highly defensive and territorial birds known to chase larger birds out of their territory. If the decoy can fool a vulture then it could do the trick.
Make loud noises. Vultures have a good sense of smell and eyesight, but they also have a good sense of hearing. This means that loud sounds would scare them off. Firecrackers, loud horns or even a Vuvuzela would do the trick.