But they said they released the birds some distance away from their loft and then tracked their journey back. So the birds must have been driven to the release point... along that road!
Is it possible the birds were driven along that road, and they somehow have a way to simply retrace their route? Some sort of geographic memory system, maybe?
Notice on the map that the pigeon appears to have taken the wrong left, backtracked, and then took the next left.
Wow. Who woulda thunk it?
I Fly Roads.