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Alston's Woolly Mouse Opossum, Micoureus alstoni, (also known as Alston's Opossum) is a medium sized pouchless marsupial of the family Didelphidae. It is arboreal and nocturnal and inhabits forests from Belize to northern Colombia. The main components of its diet are insects and fruits, but it may also eat small rodents, lizards, and birdFor other meanings of bird see bird (disambiguation). Many see text Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. There are almost 9000 known species of birds in eggs.