Falcon or hawk?

[karohemd]

What's the difference?
Is one a subspecies of the other?
Both translate as the same in German, although hawk has three possibly translations.

Any ornithologists out there?

Comments

[skinny-cartman.livejournal.com]

otherway round I think
says the perplexed biologist in the corner
desperately trying to remember his phylums and orders
on the other hand Pendragon (great game...) says that Falcons
are known as Hawks of the lure (as they hunt from free flight) and hawks are
hawks of the fist as they only swoop short distances to take game.
it all comes about from the odd falconry terms we have...

Matt