Aussie native’s short word for male fowl (7)
I believe the answer is:
rooster
'male fowl' is the definition.
(male chicken)
'aussie native's short word' is the wordplay.
'aussie native's' becomes 'roo's' (short for kangaroo).
'short' means to remove the last letter.
'word' becomes 'term' (term is a kind of word).
'term' with its final letter taken off is 'ter'.
'roos'+'ter'='ROOSTER'
'for' is the link.
(Other definitions for rooster that I've seen before include "Bird that wakes up" , "Chanticleer" , "Crowing bird" , "Toreros (anag.)" , "Farmyard cock" .)