They’ve been working on this for quite some time. Back in WWII, they experimented with using wasps as navigators in B-17 Bombers.
“Pilot to navigator. Pilot to navigator. What is our current position?”
“Bzzzzz. Bzzzzz. Bzzzzz.”
“What the hell did he say? ‘Bzzzzz’? Where is that? Andy, can you understand him?”
“Well, Skipper, I think he said we’re by a tree.”
“That’s it! Try the duck.”
Flying Fish (read to the part about the bats...)
The Coast Guard actually piloted (no pun intended) a program to use pigeons for search and rescue operations by housing them in plexiglass cupolas on the underside of S&R helicopters with a little switch they would peck when they sighted flotsam on the water. Google, "Project Sea Hunt,"