TheSouth China Morning PostreportedOliver also had a plane with a banner fly over Ipanema Beach in Brazil.
The previous record was 56,733 verified votes in 2021.
He added that hed never identified more with anything in his life.
John Oliver dressed as a püteketeke birdNBC via Getty Images
The North Island brown kiw ended up coming in a distant second.
We promised controversy but didnt quite expect this!
Thousands of fraudulent votes were discarded.
The puteketeke has a classification of Nationally Vulnerable and a New Zealand-wide population thought to be fewer than 1,000.
Forest & Bird tweeted about the win with a cheeky video thanking Oliver and saying, Puteketeke pandemonium prevails!
BEAKING NEWS: Puteketeke pandemonium prevails!
