This is the colour most people mean when they speak of a 'pink' canary. The colour expressed by birds which show this mutation should not be pale pink, as many believe. Rather, they should be as deeply coloured as possible, within the bounds of this mutation.

      This colour was originally known as the Ivory mutation, when it first occurred in Holland in 1950 or so, and you will often hear it called Ivory Rose.

      The Rose mutation is inherited in an interesting manner - it is neither dominant nor true recessive, but rather is known as gender-linked recessive. This means that a male canary must receive the mutation from both his parents, in order to show it, while a hen canary can be this colour only if she received it from her father. A rose hen's male youngsters will all carry rose, but will not show it unless they also receive the colour from their father, while her daughers will not have it at all (unless their father has it).

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