Don't know about them talking to each other lol??? but I remember talking to a well known west section distance fancier about channel racing. He reckoned the older experienced pigeons that had flown the race before,showed the younger ones how and where to cross the channel. This knowledge was then passed down the following years to younger pigeons, and so on... He said, for this reason, it is very important for the organisations to keep the same race points. Definitely food for thought.