Seems they've made a comeback through the classroom:
The Drinking Bird is back!
It may have been called by many names, the Drinking Bird, Drinking/Dunking Bird, Drinking Happy Bird or even Dippy the Drinking Bird Toy but almost everyone remembers the drinking bird, a hard-to-find toy with at least a twinge of nostalgia. Now he's back, disguised as a great physics demonstration of heat and thermodynamics.