Falcons have really small heads and short beaks compared to eagles and a different wing shape, usually. Phoenixes, being mythical, are usually rendered iconically according to culture, e.g. here in the Valley of the Sun they have a stork-like long thin beak and are sitting in a fire. Chinese phoenix is different, more eagle like beak but long curled tail.
Falcons have really small heads and short beaks compared to eagles and a different wing shape, usually. Phoenixes, being mythical, are usually rendered iconically according to culture, e.g. here in the Valley of the Sun they have a stork-like long thin beak and are sitting in a fire. Chinese phoenix is different, more eagle like beak but long curled tail.