Editing Hawk (section)

== History ==

[[Falconry]] was once called "hawking", and any bird used for falconry could be referred to as a hawk.<ref name=SOED3>{{cite book|last1=Little|first1=William|last2=Fowler|first2=H. W.|last3=Coulson|first3=Jessie|last4=Onions|first4=C. T.|last5=Friedrichsen|first5=G. W. S.|title=The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles|orig-year=1944|year=1973|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0-19-861-294-X|edition=3|chapter=Hawk|quote="Any diurnal bird of prey used in Falconry ... In ''Nat. Hist.'', restricted to a bird of the subfamily ''Accipitrinæ ... To chase or hunt game with a trained hawk; to practise falconry. ... Thei hauke, thei hunt, thei card, thei dice. Latimer'' [Hugh 1485?{{snd}}1555]"}}</ref>

Aristotle listed eleven types of {{lang|grc|ἱέρακες}} (''hierakes'', hawks; singular {{lang|grc|ἱέραξ}}, ''hierax''): aisalōn (merlin), asterias, hypotriorchēs, kirkos, leios, perkos, phassophonos, phrynologos, pternis, spizias, and triorchēs. Pliny numbered sixteen kinds of hawks, but named only aigithos, epileios, kenchrēïs (kestrel), kybindis, and triorchēs (buzzard).<ref name="Arnott2007">{{cite book|last1=Arnott|first1=W. Geoffrey| title=Birds in the Ancient World from A to Z|date=2007| publisher=Routledge| chapter=Hierax|isbn=9781134556267| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EJiBAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA77}}</ref>