I attended the American Ornithological Society (AOS) meeting in Estes Park, CO October 1 - 5, 2024 along with my graduate student Madeline Boyd. We presented results from my lab’s ongoing collaborative study of East Asian Island birds funded by a Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF, #2322123). My talk was on the complex phylogenetic history of East Asian Zosterops white-eyes and Madeline presented an excellent poster on the systematics and biogeography of the Japanese (Black) Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone atrocaudata).